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Re:Becoming a high performing software developer working fro... by eurasiantiger on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @09:21AM (#22308984)
> Refactoring usually is not going to be as tasking as working on a new feature

Maybe if you wrote the entire codebase yourself just a week ago so everything is still fresh in your memory.

In most real-world situations that is not the case, and refactoring becomes a careful task that leads to regressions even with testing in place.

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Re:Becoming a high performing software developer working fro... by kevinpaladin on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @11:05AM (#22309922)
I agree with you. Refactoring some one else's code, or even your own code after a few months is definitely not going to be a no-brainer.
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