[cgrealy]

Your software probably won’t be running in 100 years, but in 10 years? 15? Absolutely possible.

In fact, after 20 years writing software with various companies, the only ones that didn’t have code older than 10 years were the startups.

But even then, that doesn’t matter. If you’re code is really complex, you’re going to struggle to come back to it in 6 months, never mind 6 years.

Code should be as complex as it needs to be and no more. Write with maintainability in mind.