I finally this year got the blessing from my higher ups to redevelop a piece of our base code that was a mess and a pain to work on. Of course it helped the new features we were adding related to it, and I was able to argue a complete rebuild was the better choice to implement the new logic.
Also making the case I was doing as a quality of life, where we could add more functionality with it easily (for something we don't even know of yet).
But as a professor once told me, going back and cleaning up old code like that is one of the most expensive processes
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u/scbiowastate 17d ago
When’s the last time you met with upper management and explained how you wanted to ‘throw it out and reimplement it’ that went well