If you come into work the next day and cannot read the code you read you wrote the night before.

It’s time for a rewrite.

If you are debugging and lost in the call stack.

It’s time for a rewrite.

If the slightest tinge of fear runs up your spine when someone mentions that library.

It’s time for a rewrite.

It’s not a complicated equation, what is complicated is the amount of work we sometimes have to go through to justify why we need to do the rewrite in the first place.

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