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If you're good at cleaning up "pile of shit" code, you will always have work! It's s lot of fun with the right attitude.
by BurningFrog 4y ago
If you're good at cleaning up "pile of shit" code, you will always have work!
It's s lot of fun with the right attitude.
- jdeaton 4y agoThe problem is sometimes your organization does not reward these efforts at all.
- beebmam 4y agoI've made a great career of being a code janitor and doing what others don't want, while having a good attitude. In the last few years, I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it.
- norir 4y ago> I just rewrite everything I possibly can in Rust and I've yet to regret it. And hopefully no one else regrets it...
- _djo_ 4y agoBy then you're onto the next thing and it's their problem, right? Thus is the circle of (engineering) life. Just kidding. Please write maintainable code.
- Firmwarrior 4y agoHe's using RUST. Haven't you seen all the blogicles that explain how it's impossible to write bad code in rust??
- BurningFrog 4y ago> Please write maintainable code Most people don't know how to do this, because it's actually hard, and I don't think it's being taught much in programmer education. I certainly had to learn "on the job", and probably spent 10 years before I got good at it. I learned the most by fixing bugs. After a while, I started seeing the patterns of why this bug had occurred, and started writing code do avoid the traps.
- datavirtue 4y ago"Please write maintainable code" Not in the requirements, sorry.
- xnorswap 4y ago> a code janitor I prefer the term troubleshooter specialising in legacy code, but "code janitor" definitely has felt more appropriate at times.
- datavirtue 4y agoLegacy rescue
- Haga 4y ago
- HelloNurse 4y agoWork? Almost certainly. Career? Not very likely.