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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by Jorengarenar on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @03:00PM (#35966140)
It baffles me it's the only comment pointing this out and it's not even at the top.

The rest of commenters for some reason seem to equate "technical debt" with old technology and "legacy" projects.

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Re:My 20 Year Career Is Technical Debt or Deprecated by ilyt on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @04:27PM (#35967314)
People just like excuses to rewrite stuff with new fancy toys I guess.

We have code running for 10+ years in our CM. It's not technical debt. It's well tested asset that continually produces value without much problems or maintenance, coz most of them were already rooted out.

Sure if it was 10 years old blob in language nobody writes in in company it would have been potential liability but assuming every piece of software is that because it is old is a problem.

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