Comment Re:Bloggers Gotta Blog (Score 4, Insightful) 317
Yeah. This blog post shows a lot of naivete. The word "haggard" was the first clue. For most engineers that have to hold down the fort for aging software:
- a sunset is welcome, engineers prefer to create new things. They are not mindlessly drawn to complexity the way the blogger insists.
- old software stays around because it's low maintenance. It might be crappy, but old bugs have been seasoned away. So there are few bugs. The difficulty comes in expanding the functionality for new use cases. That's when old software becomes maintenance Hell.
- Old systems hang around not because of some crazy gate-keeping mentality, but because of a lack of resources. Again. Most good engineers welcome the shake-up because it brings in new resources