What is legacy code?

Nearly every developer has had an experience where they had to work with or maintain code that was outdated or even written by someone else. In this video, Mike Dane explores how something becomes legacy code, and why it may happen quicker than you think.

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Rule of thumb: Anytime you wanna punch a hole in the wall 👊 you are dealing with legacy code.

[roxassoldat]

Man! Thanks a lot for this great explanation! I bet no one can explain it as you did 👍🏼

[subhransupriyaranjannayak]

Thanks for sharing this great piece of knowledge!😊

[varunaggarwal]

I was a developer working on legacy codebase for an insurance company, now I am moving to another project.

[greggreg]

So "legacy code" is just old code -_-

[daniburns]

So a fancy sounding term that is so broad it doesn't really communicate anything?