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Re:Technical Debt by fnord123 on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @04:57AM (#19979235)
That's not debt. That's an asset. It's inventory. It has a maintenance cost in the sense that a truck has a cost of upkeep to keep it on the road.

Technical debt is configuration and plugins. You are able to deliver something now with the benefit of changing behaviour later but at the cost of having an enormously increased test surface and invasion into your type system with possibly hostile parameters.

Re:Technical Debt by emmelaich on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @05:26AM (#19979384)
I would say debt == investment.

You're betting that the maintenance foregone in the present is paid back with interest in the future.

This "pay back" could be the success of the company which allows you to pay for more developers and tools.

Is it worth it? Time will tell.