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Yes but GP said "In reality it's not that much".

• bryanlarsen 7mo ago
  Not much work every few months turns into a lot over years, especially if you skip a few of those "every few months" events.
  • tomnipotent 7mo ago
    I'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 7mo ago
      Yes. 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 7mo ago
        But if you would have rewritten the entire app every time you needed to update the dependencies, that would have taken even more time.
  • WJW 7mo ago
    That 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.