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Hell, here in Sweden there lots of old houses that are in dire shape BECAUSE they received “maintenance” to keep them modern, resulting in problems with mold an
by stefanfisk 5y ago
Hell, here in Sweden there lots of old houses that are in dire shape BECAUSE they received “maintenance” to keep them modern, resulting in problems with mold and insects.
The parallel to breaking working code while updating it to follows modern standards isn’t too far fetched.
- TeMPOraL 5y agoBoth here and in code, upgrading to keep up with progress of technology is good. Upgrading to keep up with progress of business - aka. ways to provide less value for more money - is bad. Old technology was often immune to value engineering simply because people didn't knew how to cut corners with it.
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoIme, “upgrading to keep up with the progress of technology” is often code for “I haven’t learned the paradigm behind this legacy code base, but I know it’s bad”. I’ve spent so much time arguing against fad-driven development where people insist on rewriting year-old redux apps to use hooks because “hooks are the future”. At this point, I more or less reflexively oppose anyone who argues for a new technology just because it’s new.