Recently at work I asked the software team I lead to revive an old feature we decommissioned some time ago. There’s a new need for it, a new team that wants to work on it in fact, and my hope was that we could just hand it off to them.

My team said sure, but let us clean up and reorganize a few things in the code that will make it easier for someone else to understand it and take it over.

I had a two week vacation and when I returned, this had become “we need to totally rewrite it before it can be handed off. It’s in really bad shape.”

I was annoyed but I said whatever, okay.

Then, at the handoff meeting, they revealed that the feature had about half the functions it did before. Big parts were missing from the new rewrite and some fundamental things like logging stats on how people use the feature were left out. All shit that worked before.

So looking at D4 versus D3, all I can say is: but that code is super fucking clean I bet!!!