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by ryandrake 613 days ago
“Legacy” is just the tech industry’s passive aggressive euphemism that means “it’s old and I haven’t learned how it works.”

I have the same sense as you: when someone tells me they rewrote their company’s “legacy” code, my spidey sense perks up. Now I’m wondering if there was really a good reason or if he just refuses to learn an existing code base.