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minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-21 day agoI look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
minus-squareschipelblorp@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·edit-21 day agoIs there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 day agoNo, but they don’t know that yet.
minus-squarePattyMcB@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 day agoAt that point it would just be “keep it alive until the replacement is ready”
I look at it like COBOL coding. In 20 years they can call me out of retirement and pay me a boatload to maintain the garbage mess that is all that’s left.
Is there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
No, but they don’t know that yet.
At that point it would just be “keep it alive until the replacement is ready”