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I find the thought daunting but the reality surprisingly easy. You just keep up as you go, as long as you keep things close to the framework it's fine.
by louiskottmann 8mo ago
I find the thought daunting but the reality surprisingly easy.
You just keep up as you go, as long as you keep things close to the framework it's fine.
- IshKebab 8mo ago> You just keep up as you go He said "Updating a project that was started 5-6 years ago takes a lot of time."
- WJW 8mo agoYes but GP said "In reality it's not that much".
- bryanlarsen 8mo agoNot much work every few months turns into a lot over years, especially if you skip a few of those "every few months" events.
- tomnipotent 8mo agoI'm confused. It's too much work to upgrade dependencies, but not too much time to write from scratch and maintain, in perpetuity, original code?
- bryanlarsen 8mo agoYes. I've probably spent more time maintaining a trivial Rails app originally written in 2007 than I spent writing it in the first place.
- WJW 8mo agoBut if you would have rewritten the entire app every time you needed to update the dependencies, that would have taken even more time.
- WJW 8mo agoThat is obviously true but doesn't mean as much as you seem to think. Washing laundry is also not much work but it adds up to a lot over the years, especially if you skip a few weeks of laundry every once in a while. That is not an excuse to not do it. The answer is the same in both cases: acquire some discipline and treat maintenance with the respect it deserves.