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		matwood on July 2, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Choose Boring Technology Code is absolutely a liability. Every line written must now be maintained which incurs an ongoing cost. What was missing in the gp comment is that code is also an asset. The goal is to have the value of the asset greater than the liability. This ratio changes over time given a multitude of factors like problem domain and how well the original code was written.

nemild on July 2, 2019 [–]

Agreed. A favorite quote: “[E]verybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.” - Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus

For a long time, my bias was to write code when faced with a problem, without realizing the debt I was taking on and the other solutions available.

https://www.nemil.com/on-software-engineering/dont-write-cod...

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