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by unpwn 3023 days ago
Sometimes though I think it can't be helped. I for one find myself in charge of maintaining a lot of code that I didn't originally write. For the things that need to be updated and maintained the most I find myself owning and becoming more of a frequent developer of it, but there are still a lot of things that I need to fix if some issue arises, but I have not touched in years if not ever. I can see why the original author wrote it the way they did--they are most likely a frequent developer in that language and in those patterns--but as someone stepping in, I can feel the pain of infrequent developers in that case.