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> No code I wrote five years ago is in production today.

This is wild! How can you be so sure?

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He's a JavaScript dev

Then it would be 5 months.

Funnily enough my first gigs around the turn of the century were in ASP/JScript! As far as I know that code is still running in production, NT 4.0 or something?

ASP/VBScript is also still a heavy lifter in some industries.

My javascript may had been gutted, but my HTML and CSS live in Word documents across clipboards immortal.

ROFL !

Now I need to track my code down. I think I can find open source code from 14 years ago still in use. Unless the product is defunct or all your code is rewritten, I think it's common that code just keeps running.

That's a funny statement

I'm sure-ish some of my code from 10 yrs ago is still in production. Though I'm far removed from where it actually runs. Maybe even some of the older code I wrote (which at this point is ~ 15yrs old) might be still around (at a different place)

5 yrs ago? No problem. I even have to still maintain the darn thing.

Of course, different companies, different cases, etc.

Agreed, I believe code I wrote over 20 years ago is still running. It wasn’t good, but apparently that’s not as important as we tell ourselves.

If its still running after 20 years, its great code.

Non-web code probably lasts longer because it isn't on the front line of ever more sophisticated attack vectors.

I'm in the weird position of code I wrote 15 years ago still being a common thing I use in production on applications I run today. I worked for a monitoring company that still uses the distant ancestor of the code I wrote, so if I am monitoring applications using their library, it's still got a lot of my code in it.

The oldest code I think is still in production I wrote in 2002, so it's old enough to drink. Still powers a web form as far as I am aware. Funny story - it was in ASP/JScript, so I've been doing "full stack JS" for close to 25 years now?!

I'm still in contact with former colleagues from 4 of my 5 former employers over the last ~20 years (no contact from 1 of them that I left in a hurry). That's how I know code I wrote back then, alongside code that was even older, is still in use today.

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