Software Industry - How do I deal with legacy code and clean code effectively?
I am currently working with a company which has produced a lot of useful, but old code. Many of my peers and software developers have spent a lot of time building this library and use it extensively. Importantly, the library was useful and necessary back when C++ was apparently not as well developed, but is very outdated and C-styled nowadays. I am having a lot of difficulty progressing with writing software that requires so much maintenance.
For example, my peers prefer raw arrays to vectors, and their own string class to standard strings. My peers know this as well, but since so much of the codebase is built with our own implementations of lists and containers, it is economically not possible to refactor our code without writing it from scratch.
What steps can I take to integrate myself better into using their code and making my code adaptable with legacy code, while still practicing modern coding standards?
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I am currently working with a company which has produced a lot of useful, but old code. Many of my peers and software developers have spent a lot of time building this library and use it extensively. Importantly, the library was useful and necessary back when C++ was apparently not as well developed, but is very outdated and C-styled nowadays. I am having a lot of difficulty progressing with writing software that requires so much maintenance.
For example, my peers prefer raw arrays to vectors, and their own string class to standard strings. My peers know this as well, but since so much of the codebase is built with our own implementations of lists and containers, it is economically not possible to refactor our code without writing it from scratch.
What steps can I take to integrate myself better into using their code and making my code adaptable with legacy code, while still practicing modern coding standards?
software-industry colleagues software-development
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I am currently working with a company which has produced a lot of useful, but old code. Many of my peers and software developers have spent a lot of time building this library and use it extensively. Importantly, the library was useful and necessary back when C++ was apparently not as well developed, but is very outdated and C-styled nowadays. I am having a lot of difficulty progressing with writing software that requires so much maintenance.
For example, my peers prefer raw arrays to vectors, and their own string class to standard strings. My peers know this as well, but since so much of the codebase is built with our own implementations of lists and containers, it is economically not possible to refactor our code without writing it from scratch.
What steps can I take to integrate myself better into using their code and making my code adaptable with legacy code, while still practicing modern coding standards?
software-industry colleagues software-development
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I am currently working with a company which has produced a lot of useful, but old code. Many of my peers and software developers have spent a lot of time building this library and use it extensively. Importantly, the library was useful and necessary back when C++ was apparently not as well developed, but is very outdated and C-styled nowadays. I am having a lot of difficulty progressing with writing software that requires so much maintenance.
For example, my peers prefer raw arrays to vectors, and their own string class to standard strings. My peers know this as well, but since so much of the codebase is built with our own implementations of lists and containers, it is economically not possible to refactor our code without writing it from scratch.
What steps can I take to integrate myself better into using their code and making my code adaptable with legacy code, while still practicing modern coding standards?
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