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I'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 everythin

I'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 ago
  By 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 ago
    He'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 ago
  Legacy rescue