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latency-guy2 on Oct 21, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: "No, it's less effort than that"

Seeing as there's tech debt from 40 years ago people like me are still paying, seems like devs don't know how to do things right at all.

wkat4242 on Oct 21, 2023 [–]

Well yes and no.

That tech debt from 40 years ago was usually perfectly adequate back then. It's only tech debt now because it's become unmanageable due to changing environments, programming languages, APIs, security concerns etc.

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