The hidden cost of a clutter: why you should be deleting unused code

If you’re building or maintaining a SaaS app, you or one of your devs have probably encountered this scenario: you’re digging through the codebase, trying to fix a bug or refactor a feature, and you stumble upon a chunk of code that seems… unnecessary. It’s not connected to anything obvious, but you can’t be 100% sure it’s actually unused and safe to delete. You end up leaving it there, just in case.

It seems inoffensive: unused code is unused after all.