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You’ve just inherited a legacy C++ codebase, now what? (gaultier.github.io)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 8 months ago

@lysdexic "Get the tests passing on your machine". Which tests?

[–] NegativeLookBehind 2 points 8 months ago (2 children)

…delete it

[–] SatouKazuma 7 points 8 months ago (1 children)

But wouldn't that leave a shit ton of dangling pointers?

[–] NegativeLookBehind 5 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Not my problem anymore, I quit.

[–] SatouKazuma 2 points 8 months ago

I can get behind this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you mean rewrite it in rust?

[–] SatouKazuma 1 points 8 months ago

Hear, hear!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

This kind of work is oddly therapeutic to me. As long as I'm actually able to change things significantly and I'm not under too much time pressure.

What really sucks is when I get a task like this and someone wants more crazy complexity added. e.g. I'm just trying to fix the code up and make the existing API fast & safe, but management wants us to also emulate the entire API of a competing product, including all its awful legacy.