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There's a good chance that's not what people mean by this term though. It's probably used in the (now) classic sense as defined by M. Feathers in his "Working
by tpoacher 2y ago
There's a good chance that's not what people mean by this term though.
It's probably used in the (now) classic sense as defined by M. Feathers in his "Working with legacy code" book.
Code that is old but otherwise awesome, maintainable (or even actively maintained) and easy / a joy to work with are rarely referred to as "legacy code".
- bdangubic 2y agohmmm almost 3 decades in the industry and have very seldom (some exceptions) heard “legacy” for code that is old but awesome.
- jimbokun 2y agoIt doesn’t seem awesome at first glance because it takes longer to get up to speed on a large, old code base than a small, young one. But you will quickly learn how awesome the old code base is if you attempt to rewrite it, and realize everything the old code base takes into account.