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Code 'longevity' is influenced by many more factors than code quality; e.g. rate of business change, traffic changes, infrastructure dependencies, and the compl

by xpe 4y ago

Code 'longevity' is influenced by many more factors than code quality; e.g. rate of business change, traffic changes, infrastructure dependencies, and the complexity of the surrounding system. As a pathological counter example think about arcane obtuse code that people are afraid to modify.

matwood 4y ago
That's a good point. I didn't really define what I meant by 'best'. In some cases the code was used, updated, etc... for many many years by people I knew. If people were too afraid to touch it when a bug was found, then definitely not good. But, if people had no need to touch it b/c it works, that's a good spot to be also.