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"GitHub" Is Starting to Feel Like Legacy Software (www.mistys-internet.website)

submitted 3 months ago by mox@lemmy.sdf.org to c/programming@programming.dev

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Not my blog, but the author's experience reminded me of my own frustrations with Microsoft GitHub.

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[–] Kissaki@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Legacy means outdated. Not [necessarily] unusable or unstable or insecure or needs to be updated. But feels old or outdated. Conforming to older standards or workflows.

Wikipedia matches my understanding:

In computing, a legacy system is an old method, technology, computer system, or application program, "of, relating to, or being a previous or outdated computer system", yet still in use.

[–] onlinepersona@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago

Then I think the author also had a different understanding of the term, because he's complaining about new functionality breaking an old feature. Introducing new code is quite the opposite of legacy.

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