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New code is not cool. Today's new code is tomorrow's legacy code. It will need updates, security vulnerabilities will be discovered in it, and it will break oc
by fefe23 4y ago
New code is not cool.
Today's new code is tomorrow's legacy code.
It will need updates, security vulnerabilities will be discovered in it, and it will break occasionally or maybe lose data.
Someone will have to maintain it.
People need to have more respect when it comes to new code.
It should be treated like unexploded ordnance.
- jmartrican 4y agoThank you for your comment. Maybe I need to be reminded of that every once in a while.
- nuancebydefault 4y agoI would rephrase it as, new code is cool for who writes it, less cool for who needs to maintain it.
- sbdivuvu 4y agoDepends who's writing the new code. My new code generally doesn't need people to maintain it and those that do end up having to modify it are happier that I replaced the garbage that was there before me. You can write new code with the intent of making it maintainable. If your new code is clever shit nobody understands you probably shouldn't be writing code.
- urthor 4y agoYMMV. I use very, very cool language tricks in my unit tests. Not in the production code.