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minus-squarePattyMcBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-211 days 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-up10·11 days agoIs there any amount of money that can unfuck a codebase after 20 years of rot?
minus-square🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·11 days agoNo, but they don’t know that yet.
minus-squarePattyMcBlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days 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”