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by chongli 298 days ago
Are you talking about refactoring code you’re already familiar with? Or a completely unknown codebase that no one else at the company knows anything about and you’ve been tasked with fixing?
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Both. But I'm not talking about fixing. I'm talking about refactoring.
It’s often the case that in order to fix an issue you need to refactor first.