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> Until or unless someone else steps up and does the same. Or the company ponies up and rewrites the thing. Sometimes legacy really is bad, and sometimes you
by lelanthran 1y ago
> Until or unless someone else steps up and does the same.
Or the company ponies up and rewrites the thing.
Sometimes legacy really is bad, and sometimes you really do need to throw the old product into the bin.
See Trello for an example.
- hinkley 1y agoRewriting is moving the goalposts and hoping that person emerges in the rewrite. They often don’t. Or they get fed up with reasonable criticism and leave. Which is a variant of the Lavaflow Antipattern.