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And the only better experience than that is killing a new greenfield project before it gets to production because the old software was good enough and the probl
by fjjjrjj 2y ago
And the only better experience than that is killing a new greenfield project before it gets to production because the old software was good enough and the problems were organizational in how the software was being used.
- 4ndrewl 2y agoThe best code is the code that doesn't exist.
- antisthenes 2y agoCertainly the most secure code. Not sure about best.
- ticklemyelmo 2y agoBetter on every axis: security, performance, resource consumption, reliability, verification, documentation... Code is a pure liability that you accept to get a useful service.
- greenchair 2y agoexactly..which is also why lines of code written is one of if not the worst possible metric of productivity. easy to game too.
- escapecharacter 2y agoI marked my transition to senior engineer when my net lines of code flipped to negative. Not that I game that obviously, it just occurred naturally for a ~4 month period
- bell-cot 2y ago> Better on every axis... How 'bout job security?
- rzzzt 2y agoAnyone can write no code.
- MonkeyClub 2y agoBut it takes a master to not write the write piece.
- lawn 2y agoI thought it was pretty funny how we had this large project that was supposed to replace a legacy system (that was mostly a bad hack that got pushed to production). But when it was finished it failed to meet the basic requirements for the only customer that used the system.
- Cthulhu_ 2y agoI wish this happened tbh. I've seen one where the greenfield (Scala, AWS, etc) is still living alongside the old good enough software they went back to (C# / .NET) ten years on.