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

submitted 8 months ago by lysdexic to c/cpp

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

"I was trying to be polite. YOURS!"

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago (2 children)

…delete it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

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

Not my problem anymore, I quit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I can get behind this

[–] andnekon 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

you mean rewrite it in rust?

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

Hear, hear!

[–] porgamrer 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.