What makes code legacy?

Question

I have heard many developers refer to code as \"legacy\". Most of the time it is code that has been written by someone who no longer works on the project. What is it that ma

Answer 1

By using hardware, software, APIs, languages, technologies or features that are either no longer supported or have been superceded, typically combined with little to no possibility of ever replacing that code, instead using it til it or the system dies.