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I always tell the young devs that they shouldn't ask for dedicated refactoring time but it's just part of professional development. You have to trust that using
by rqtwteye 4y ago
I always tell the young devs that they shouldn't ask for dedicated refactoring time but it's just part of professional development. You have to trust that using good practices consistently will help you in the long term and actually speed up development.
- DangitBobby 4y agoSometimes people learn and grow and want to apply that to old code that they wrote. Are they given time to do that?
- cratermoon 4y agoIf they are having to touch that old code to add new features, fix bugs, migrate to a new context (say, OS version), or improve the performance/memory usage/responsiveness, then they should be improving it. Whether or not the developers are "given" time, making the change will take the time. That time can either be because the system is bad and making changes is hard, or because the system gets improved to make the changes possible.