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by stickfigure 671 days ago
In a sufficiently large codebase, this is just simply inevitable and you just have to accept it as a fact of life. If you have millions of lines of hand-written code, you're going to have archeological layers and some pockets that are more modern than others. It's not great but "everything is locked into a pattern established in 2003 and you can't innovate" is a worse problem.