Bad code is a relative term. It might look awful but the design might be decent and of course it works or it wouldn't qualify.
I'm maintaining two semi-large applications right now that I wish I had the time to fix.
The bad stuff is basically no documentation, no attempt at pep8 compliance, written before decorators existed in python and very dependent on Python 2 syntax.
But it works and it's actually a very good distributed monitoring system that was ahead of its time. Closed source but it would remind people of prometheus if it was released, yet it was several years ahead of that product.
I'm maintaining two semi-large applications right now that I wish I had the time to fix.
The bad stuff is basically no documentation, no attempt at pep8 compliance, written before decorators existed in python and very dependent on Python 2 syntax.
But it works and it's actually a very good distributed monitoring system that was ahead of its time. Closed source but it would remind people of prometheus if it was released, yet it was several years ahead of that product.