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title: Not all legacy code is technical debt
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date: 2024-10-01
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permalink: daily/2024/10/01/not-all-legacy-code-is-technical-debt
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- software-development
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cta: d7eol
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Not all legacy code is technical debt.
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Technical debt is an overused term with people often referring to any legacy code, outdated dependencies or bugs as technical debt.
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Technical debt specifically refers to the future cost when a short-term solution is selected over a more flexible or efficient one.
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For example, hard-coding something for now and making it dynamic later.
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It's not any code the current Developers didn't write or no longer want to support.
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