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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by jazzdev on Sunday January 06, 2019 @06:24PM (#18841422)
Code does not rot. It gets complicated and starts to look rotten, but that's the hard won complexity of features and bug fixes. To think you can start over and not re-introduce bugs that have already been fixed seems foolhardy.
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Re:Software Engineering at Google (2017) by collinmanderson on Monday January 07, 2019 @02:52PM (#18849288)
The underlying dependencies (OS, libraries, runtime, compiler, etc) slowly get out of date.

Out of date dependencies can be seen as code rot, regardless of quality/state of the actual code.

(Not saying that it should be rewritten because of that, but I do consider outdated dependencies to be code rot.)

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