Re:Ask HN: How to be productive with big existing code base
by gorbachev on Thursday February 28, 2019 @03:13AM
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Exactly!
The first version of anything almost certainly ALWAYS sucks. Usually the only way that doesn't happen is if the team developing the solution has prior knowledge of some kind...having built a similar solution before.
I used to always hate consulting for this reason. The company I was working for was always doing greenfield development for clients. We never, ever got to do v2, because the projects always transitioned to clients' teams. I can't remember a single project I was working on that I was happy with.
The first version of anything almost certainly ALWAYS sucks. Usually the only way that doesn't happen is if the team developing the solution has prior knowledge of some kind...having built a similar solution before.
I used to always hate consulting for this reason. The company I was working for was always doing greenfield development for clients. We never, ever got to do v2, because the projects always transitioned to clients' teams. I can't remember a single project I was working on that I was happy with.