abbadon420 comments on Handover

[–] abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 month ago (7 children)

I just quit my job. We have a dotnet application running that I didn't write, but I'm the only one who knows a little dotnet, so I took care of it. My handover will be this, or "learn dotnet".

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[–] nebeker@programming.dev 9 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Learning .NET is easy, the hard part is understanding the business. You can buy books or training for whatever language, but once the people who thought up the logic of the system leave, all you can do is archeology.

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (1 child)

The business:

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[–] nebeker@programming.dev 1 point 1 month ago

Sure, but you need to do something for that money. You’ll probably have docs for what, but you’ll often need to dig through the code for the how.

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[–] fibojoly@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

That's my career, right there.

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[–] nebeker@programming.dev 2 points 1 month ago

I don’t know what it feels like to unearth ancient Roman artifacts, but finding out that weird process nobody understands is actually just dead code is a lot of fun! It’s not a bad career route.

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[–] ohshit604@lemmy.halstead.host 8 points 1 month ago

or "learn dotnet".

Should've snapped back and handed them the defintion of a .net TLD

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[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 26 points 1 month ago

It's okay you don't need to know the language anymore, ai go brrrrr

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