alt Hacker NewsThe author admits to a measurement: maintainability. There are quantitative and qualitative ways to measure this, the biggest signal being outright abandonment
The author admits to a measurement: maintainability. There are quantitative and qualitative ways to measure this, the biggest signal being outright abandonment
That's terrible as a signal. It's too late for anything, and there's many reasons things get abandoned.
> code maintainability and good architecture don’t have good measurements that we can apply, because it takes months, years even, to notice the effects of bad architecture or of unmaintainable code.
One way of understanding "good" here is "actionable", imho.