删除不推荐使用的代码是坏主意还是好主意？ [等候接听]

Question

In the previous version API, we created a module for creating a schedule in Webservice. Next week we'll release intermediate version product in production but we have one trouble. Customers said that they don't need this functional more. I'm a backend developer in this project, I refactored a few domain models and that saves this functional I must to refactored dto, view models and structure database. PM offers that I should use @Deprecated and save this part of code but I think that we should delete this part of code because in the next version API we have to write another module for creating schedules. I know that this part of the code will not be used in the next versions.

Answer 1

Dead code needs to be found and removed; leaving dead code in is an obstacle to programmer understanding and action, and there's the risk that the code is awakened which can cause significant problems. Deleting dead code is not a technical problem; it is a problem of mindset and culture, argued Kevlin Henney.

more: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/02/dead-code/