It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by gtirloni on Sunday July 16, 2023 @12:33PM (#36748802)

I will often follow the codebase's way of doing things, even if I know a better way.

I'll only push for the better way if I, or someone else, is willing to refactor the whole codebase.

Last thing I want is to work on a codebase with N different ways to solve the same problem. That decreases productivity too much.

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by jacquesm on Sunday July 16, 2023 @02:46PM (#36750215)

That makes sense. The problem is that it can be quite hard on large codebases to find such instances if they aren't routed through some library to avoid code duplication.

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