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"Legacy code" is also known as "the important code that makes the business work"

If these new fangled languages are so great, one day they can be legacy code too. :P


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Muromec10/01/2024

That's not what makes something legacy. Legacy is something highly not advisable to change because it's both makes the business work and can't be easily changed because of complexity, loss of context, high blast radius or whatever. It's just there and you have to deal with it. If it wasn't complex, opaque and scary to touch it would not have been just another piece of something to be replaced and updated like the copyright date in the footer.