Rewrite or repair?

Question

I\'m sure you have all been there, you take on a project where there is a creaky old code base which is barely fit for purpose and you have to make the decision to either re

Answer 1

It's not so black and white... it really depends on a lot of factors (the more important being "what does the person paying you want you to do")

Where I work we re-wrote a development framework, and on the other hand, we keep modifying some old systems that cannot be migrated (because of the client's technology and time restrictions). In this case, we try to mantain the coding style and sometimes you have to implement a lot of workarounds because of the way it was built