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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by Fradow on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @09:07AM (#16367160)
There is a real difference between a properly maintained, up-to-date project that happened to be started four years ago, and a project that was started four years ago, has never seen any dependencies update (not even security fixes), and is dirty hack over dirty hack.

By the tone of the article, the author is clearly talking about the second kind.

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Re:Maintaining code quality when nobody cares by user5994461 on Tuesday February 13, 2018 @07:58PM (#16372460)
There was barely anything new outside of web development.

Java code, C++ and python from 2014 could be untouched and still working fine.

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