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What is technical debt?

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+title: What is technical debt?
+date: 2024-03-20
+permalink: archive/2024/03/20/what-is-technical-debt
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+    - software-development
+    - clean-code
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+    How do _you_ define technical debt? I can think of several potential definitions.
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+How do you define legacy code?
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+Is it code written by previous Developers who worked on the codebase?
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+Is it code you wrote last week or last month?
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+Is it code for features everyone no longer uses?
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+Is it the "old" part of the application that no one wants to work on?
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+It is any code that's not nice to work on or difficult to change?
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+Is it code written with different conventions to your current ones or in a different style?
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+Is it any code that doesn't have automated tests or wasn't written with test-driven development?
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+Is it code built with outdated tooling or frameworks (like CSS libraries) that were popular then but have since been replaced by something newer?
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+## Here's the thing
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+These are just some of the potential definitions I can think of.
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+The term "legacy code" and others, such as "technical debt", often mean different things.
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+What's your definition? Reply and let me know.