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by rpcope1 660 days ago
Almost any time someone uses the words "legacy" or "modern" in the context of computers, it's a giveaway to me almost always someone has an axe to grind with few or no real deep substantive reasons. I typically read these as:

"legacy" -> anything that has existed for more than a day that I don't understand and don't like that stops me from poorly reinventing the wheel

"modern" -> anything that I dreamt up or heard some other hipster talk about recently that I got hyped about