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The fallacy with this logic is that software developer turnover is high. So in many cases someone other than you will be maintaining software you wrote. At leas
by bigtunacan 12y ago
The fallacy with this logic is that software developer turnover is high. So in many cases someone other than you will be maintaining software you wrote. At least when using open source there is often some sort of community of developers that you can turn to whether through Github, Stack Overflow, Google Groups, etc... if you get stuck and have no history with the code.
- falcolas 12y agoSubstitute coworkers for IRC/Github, and documentation for Stack Overflow and framework pages, and I see you as being in the same place in either case. When those fail, you're stuck with RTFC. When you're stuck reading the code, if the code was written in a style assumed by your company and by people whose code you've read before, it will have the advantage of being written in a familiar style. I will grant you, however, if it's a bit of code that nobody has touched for years, open source software will have an edge.