Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by strangling it

Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by dfox on Monday February 17, 2020 @06:24PM (#22351899)

That depends by what you mean by “modern”. And the age of the system of question is completely irrelevant to whether it is or isn't an unmaintainable legacy mess.

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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by 32gbsd on Monday February 17, 2020 @07:25PM (#22352318)

wait a minute I thought legacy was used to refer to old pre-cloud pre-serverless pre-javascript software? Everything written nowadays is modern and hence you just replace it with more modern stuff. re-writing it is often difficult because of its modern layers.

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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by fourthark on Monday February 17, 2020 @08:59PM (#22352771)

I hope this is satire, but I’m not sure if it is.

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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by morgancmartin on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @02:10AM (#22354090)

r/programmingcirclejerk would have a field day with it, that's for certain.

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Re:Avoid rewriting a legacy system from scratch by stranglin... by exdsq on Tuesday February 18, 2020 @03:49AM (#22354474)

Any code that’s not Serverless JS needs to be rewritten

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