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> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today. This is wild! How can you be so sure?
by normie3000 2y ago
> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today.
This is wild! How can you be so sure?
- taspeotis 2y agoHe's a JavaScript dev
- solarized 2y agoROFL !
- jaggederest 2y agoFunnily enough my first gigs around the turn of the century were in ASP/JScript! As far as I know that code is still running in production, NT 4.0 or something?
- joquarky 2y agoASP/VBScript is also still a heavy lifter in some industries.
- Jerrrrry 2y agoMy javascript may had been gutted, but my HTML and CSS live in Word documents across clipboards immortal.
- ralphc 2y agoThen it would be 5 months.
- raverbashing 2y agoThat's a funny statement I'm sure-ish some of my code from 10 yrs ago is still in production. Though I'm far removed from where it actually runs. Maybe even some of the older code I wrote (which at this point is ~ 15yrs old) might be still around (at a different place) 5 yrs ago? No problem. I even have to still maintain the darn thing. Of course, different companies, different cases, etc.
- rblatz 2y agoAgreed, I believe code I wrote over 20 years ago is still running. It wasn’t good, but apparently that’s not as important as we tell ourselves.
- GrumpyNl 2y agoIf its still running after 20 years, its great code.
- Clubber 2y agoNon-web code probably lasts longer because it isn't on the front line of ever more sophisticated attack vectors.
- dangedbyidiots 2y ago[dead]
- jaggederest 2y agoI'm in the weird position of code I wrote 15 years ago still being a common thing I use in production on applications I run today. I worked for a monitoring company that still uses the distant ancestor of the code I wrote, so if I am monitoring applications using their library, it's still got a lot of my code in it. The oldest code I think is still in production I wrote in 2002, so it's old enough to drink. Still powers a web form as far as I am aware. Funny story - it was in ASP/JScript, so I've been doing "full stack JS" for close to 25 years now?!
- scruple 2y agoI'm still in contact with former colleagues from 4 of my 5 former employers over the last ~20 years (no contact from 1 of them that I left in a hurry). That's how I know code I wrote back then, alongside code that was even older, is still in use today.
- 8organicbits 2y agoNow I need to track my code down. I think I can find open source code from 14 years ago still in use. Unless the product is defunct or all your code is rewritten, I think it's common that code just keeps running.