Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job

Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by fefe23 on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:20AM (#33247599)

New code is not cool.

Today's new code is tomorrow's legacy code. It will need updates, security vulnerabilities will be discovered in it, and it will break occasionally or maybe lose data.

Someone will have to maintain it.

People need to have more respect when it comes to new code. It should be treated like unexploded ordnance.

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by jmartrican on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @10:23AM (#33247655)

Thank you for your comment. Maybe I need to be reminded of that every once in a while.

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by nuancebydefault on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @04:58PM (#33253845)

I would rephrase it as, new code is cool for who writes it, less cool for who needs to maintain it.

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Re:Tell HN: Beware 'Ungrowth' in Your Job by urthor on Friday October 28, 2022 @06:31PM (#33378803)

YMMV.

I use very, very cool language tricks in my unit tests.

Not in the production code.

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