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A comment on Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought was well done?.

Re:Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought w... by animuchan on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:42AM (#32385257)
Maybe "inherited" is a strong word, but some of the open source projects I contributed to were beautifully crafted. Django is one such example, on all fronts — docs are great, there are tests, and so on.

At work, not so much, as it's mostly very rushed, badly designed software.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought w... by tehnicaorg on Monday August 08, 2022 @09:48AM (#32385332)
> as it's mostly very rushed, badly designed software

What's stopping you in improving the situation? Time pressure or unwilling colleagues?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought w... by animuchan on Tuesday August 09, 2022 @02:54AM (#32394961)
That's a great question. Now that I think of it, it's the incentive structure, for the most part. One gets recognition for half-assed implementations delivered very fast.
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Re:Ask HN: Have you ever inherited a code base you thought w... by datavirtue on Monday August 08, 2022 @10:03AM (#32385499)
A business reason?
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