
Why Technical Debt is Not Always a Bad Thing
Let me tell you something that might make your code-perfectionist soul cringe a little: technical debt isn’t the boogeyman we’ve made it out to be. In fact, I’d argue that treating all technical debt as inherently evil is like saying all financial debt is bad—tell that to someone who just bought their dream house with a mortgage. We’ve been conditioned to view technical debt as this dark specter haunting our codebases, something to be eliminated at all costs....