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

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[–] odelik@lemmy.today 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Tja@programming.dev 1 points 12 hours ago

It can, but usually that's not the case.