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Re:You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? by sjc02060 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:25AM (#39551468)
A good read. We recently did "Rewrite in a memory safe language?" successfully. It was something that shouldn't have been written in C++ in the first place (it was never performance sensitive).
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Re:You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? by tehnub on Thursday February 29, 2024 @11:59AM (#39552013)
Would you mind sharing what language you used?
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Re:You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? by jstimpfle on Thursday February 29, 2024 @03:28PM (#39554611)
Probably not a project spanning more than 3 decades of development and millions of lines of code?
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Re:You've just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? by throwaway2037 on Thursday February 29, 2024 @08:17PM (#39557378)
Do you have a public write-up (blog post)? If yes, you should post it on HN. It would probably generate lots of interesting conversation.
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