I'm currently involved in a project to replace a logistics company's AS/400 based applications with a modern Clojure app. You haven't seen legacy until you've seen The Enterprise...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i 😱 😱 😱 😱

How are you tracking the requirements?

Rather than saying tracking, getting would be the right word

that's a long term process which has been going on for close to a year, and is still far from over. We have one very senior technical contact who is extremely helpful, plus things like on-site interviews, mapping out the existing system

Nice!

I've been doing modern javascript for a year now, learning a lot, but I don't want to get sucked into this world too much. But there where I'm working now as freelancer, they are calling a redux version of the webapp "legacy", so the word legacy gets a whole new meaning.

Add to that, I helped them migrate from redux to gatsbyjs, and now they want to move over to next.js, because, you know, maintainance is not exciting.

ah yes, "the churn". It's amazing how committed some people are to wasting time.

that, and underestimating

All this migration, is it bringing in value? Does it really make sense to move from one place to another?

it's a long complicated story, I'm just a "dev on the floor", I do what I'm told.

And a pinch of Elasticsearch

Sorry to hear that you're stuck in OO land

😁 But hey, at least, it’s ruby 🙃