Code Refugee

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A developer or code artifact displaced from one system, team, or stack into another. In engineering slang, code refugee often describes people and patterns arriving from sunsetted platforms or reorganizations with baggage still attached.

    In plain English: A developer or piece of code that has been displaced from an old system into a new one.

    Example: "After the shutdown of the legacy platform, a whole wave of code refugees brought old config habits and build assumptions into the new services."

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