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Using something you enjoy is fine, as long as you don’t forget the person who is going to maintain your code after you move on.
by whobre 1y ago
Using something you enjoy is fine, as long as you don’t forget the person who is going to maintain your code after you move on.
- strongly-typed 1y agoImagine inheriting a project that was a joy for someone to work on instead of a slog.
- blandflakes 1y agoJoy is probably an improvement on slog, but one person's joy is another's hell. I've inherited a lot of joyful projects that were an awful fit for continued maintenance because joyful meant using new, unproven, and unstable technologies.
- whalesalad 1y agoI have experienced many identical situations. Some people just love to tinker and over-engineer for the sake of stretching a muscle. It's unfortunate when that sneaks into a prod system that has to be maintained by others.
- lenkite 1y agoParent developer's Joy is the inheriting developer's Despair. A project is successful when the parent developer is Bored.