Elixir of Youth — Reviving Ancient Legacy with .NET 5
summary
A team migrated a 10-year organically grown Python application to .NET 5, weighing options between rewriting from scratch and transpiling. They tackled practical issues like lack of documentation, interacting with an unpredictable VBA client, converting extensive condition-based logic while preserving readable code, and devising tests to verify correctness after the move.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:00Legacy project overview
- 6:58Migration to .NET 5
- 12:34New architecture design
- 19:15Migration advice
- 23:08Results and conclusion
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