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Working in legacy code Legacy code (ie any code users actually use ;) ) is the life and blood of actual value delivery. Warts and all... your life in legacy co
by softwaredoug 5y ago
Working in legacy code
Legacy code (ie any code users actually use ;) ) is the life and blood of actual value delivery. Warts and all... your life in legacy code is truly navigating the dance between paying off technical debt and delivering new features in a codebase currently serving a userbase. Doing that dance is hard, but fun and rewarding.
- mikewarot 5y agoLegacy code is crystalized knowledge of a problem domain. Legacy code is Chesteron's fence. It is wise to understand the conditions that caused it to be built before changing it.
- Jtsummers 5y agoWhich is why Feathers’ book on the topic spends so much time on testing. Establishing a test suite that allows you to (hopefully) make changes without breaking things, and if you do you find out quickly.