oh. now i realize i may not have explained my issue very well...
my problem here is not solved. my rewrite can't be used because i rewrote too much code. what i meant to say is that when i don't have to deal with the obstacle of all this legacy code, it becomes easy for me to create a solution. my difficulty is not actually solving the particular problem, but with trying to build something on top of the legacy codebase.
i am realizing everything i am trying to do boils down to a hack to try and refactor shitty code into something its not. I am trying too hard to make what we have work like I think we need it to. I know that i am guided by best practices, my own experience, source code written by people smarter then me, and blogs posted on hacker news, but maybe my company doesn't want a good solution, maybe they just want some shit that works.
Part of me wants to be confident this is the right thing to do, and just be like fuck it and quit, but i have heard stories about the well intentioned and read about lava layers and part of me is worried that i am just being arrogant.
my problem here is not solved. my rewrite can't be used because i rewrote too much code. what i meant to say is that when i don't have to deal with the obstacle of all this legacy code, it becomes easy for me to create a solution. my difficulty is not actually solving the particular problem, but with trying to build something on top of the legacy codebase.
i am realizing everything i am trying to do boils down to a hack to try and refactor shitty code into something its not. I am trying too hard to make what we have work like I think we need it to. I know that i am guided by best practices, my own experience, source code written by people smarter then me, and blogs posted on hacker news, but maybe my company doesn't want a good solution, maybe they just want some shit that works.
Part of me wants to be confident this is the right thing to do, and just be like fuck it and quit, but i have heard stories about the well intentioned and read about lava layers and part of me is worried that i am just being arrogant.