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Refactoring gets really bad reviews, but from where I'm sitting as a hobby programmer in relative ignorance it seems like it should be easier, because you could potentially reuse a lot of code. Can someone break it down for me?

I'm thinking of a situation where the code is ugly but still legible here. I completely understand that actual reverse engineering is harder than coding on a blank slate.

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[โ€“] t3rmit3@beehaw.org 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

My current team has had a great solution to this, which is to re-build in parallel. Build the new system alongside the old one, including the reporting and integrations. You'll find the edge cases pretty quickly.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 days ago

So how is that different from refactoring?