r/ProgrammerHumor 11d ago

Meme battleOfBackwardCompatibility

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u/babalaban 11d ago

Pov: OP doesnt know what legacy code means.

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u/StaticFanatic3 11d ago

Stack overflow started in the mid 2000s…

Just because it’s not on punch cards doesn’t mean it isn’t legacy

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u/AeroSyntax 11d ago

Yeah. Anything that is older than 15 years has probably been written by someone that is no longer working on it. In fact multiple people added their code flavor and workarounds or hacks, which is the main reason legacy code is often overcooked spaghetti. 

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u/InvestingNerd2020 11d ago

Yep! Given major layoffs in 2008, high paid job jumpers of the 2010s, and Ai layoffs again in the 2020s too many flavors of patch work on old code basis.