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My favourite technique for tackling dead code is something I saw in a lightning talk at Velocity Conf years ago. I've introduced it at three different companies
by philbo 3y ago
My favourite technique for tackling dead code is something I saw in a lightning talk at Velocity Conf years ago. I've introduced it at three different companies now, it's worked well in all three places and I'm always surprised it isn't more widely known/discussed (afaik).
This was the talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UXzfQWOhQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29UXzfQWOhQ
- Tade0 3y agoSo if I understand this correctly a method suspected to be dead is flagged with a "tombstone" with a date that appears in the logs and removed past a certain age?