3 ms·
Whoa I once got a 150kLOC code base in my possession and got it to 37kLOC in maybe two years. I cut a lot of stupid boilerplate and was willing to cut features
by guard-of-terra 13y ago
Whoa I once got a 150kLOC code base in my possession and got it to 37kLOC in maybe two years.
I cut a lot of stupid boilerplate and was willing to cut features nobody needed. I added a lot of new, good features (not so good, too).
It was still not perfect, these days I would be much more fierce at shaking old stuff.
Still, you just delete and fix and delete and fix. That's how you make a turbo plasma rifle out of Singer sewing machine.
- arh68 13y agoDid you change the language, or did the language/libraries stay the same? Just curious.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoLanguage stayed the same (java) and libraries stayed mostly the same because I was actually afraid of infreastructure changes.
- aryastark 13y ago> was willing to cut features nobody needed Ah. And then a week later you hear that Janice in the accounting office in New Zealand depended on one of those features. That's when you learn there is a Janice in accounting. And that your company has an office in New Zealand.
- guard-of-terra 13y agoWell, then you fix it. It's better to try than coding around code of unknown origin, likely defunct.