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Now listen here you little shit (media.piefed.social)

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[-] Tja@programming.dev 43 points 1 week ago

ITT: AI induced dunning-kruger. Everybody can write maintenable code, just somehow it happens that nobody does.

[-] mushroommunk@lemmy.today 50 points 1 week ago

Most of the unmaintainable code I've seen is because businesses don't appreciate the need to occasionally refactor/rewrite or do anything to maintain code. They only appreciate piling more on. They'd do away with bug fixing too if they could.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 5 points 1 week ago

Many opensource projects are in same state, I know for sure my projects become spaghetti if I work more than a year on them.

Besides, I'd argue that if you need to rewrite (part of) it is because it wasn't maintainable in the first place.

[-] odelik@lemmy.today 1 points 6 days ago

I disagree.

Rewrites can happen due to new feature support.

For examlle: It's entirely possible that a synchronous state machine worked for the previous needs of the software, but it grew to a point where now that state machine is unable to meet the new requirements and needs to be replaced with a modern fam with asynchronous singals/delegates.

Just because that system was replaced doesn't mean that it wasn't maintainable, wasn't readable, or easy to understand. It just wasn't compatible with the growing needs of the application.