What’s the difference between legacy code and technical debt? Serious question. If you have one you always have the other?
16% Yeah they’re the same.
62% No (explain in replies)
5% WTF (complain in replies)
17% 🐧
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Or current code - i.e., the kind you write to meet the sprint deadline that just barely works, but Monday we're onto a different feature
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How true! So it kind of means that legacy is actually up to last hour of committed code... Maybe it's our perception of time that's the problem.
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Replying to @mediajunkie @TroyWarr @noahsussman
Was it? Computer programming typically required far more rigor than we see in the web industry for good reason - at least theoretically. Look at what happened to draconian error handling in XML. How many learn JavaScript as a language? Or for that matter even HTML, CSS? 😑

Mar 17, 2022 · 9:58 PM UTC
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