Removing old code that happens to be terrible because you wrote it while you were tired and so you can shrink it from 50 lines down to 10 😌😌😌
Removing entire features that nobody knows we have and haven’t been supported for years
And then get into panik mode because the one seemingly insignificant piece of code that did just happen to depend on it just happened to cause cascading failures for apparently no reason at all.
This is not humor, it’s a fact lol
Humour can’t be factual?
Most of my recent work was updating and refactoring old code, this hits right home lol
Humans just like feeling like they’re better than another human, deleting someone else’s code is loudly saying that you’re better than them in some metric. Nothing wrong with it, but that’s why writing code feels less powerful than yeeting other people’s shit.
So if I delete my own code, I feel better than myself!
I do it all the time, that’s awesome for my said esteem.
Removing or even refactoring old code can be very therapeutic.
