[New feature] Technical debt cost

[roman-petrov]

Today from flutter PR flutter/flutter#83846 I found an interesting module in Flutter Device Lab, technical debt cost calculation.

If flutter performs such a task it might be a good idea to have something similar in dart_code_metrics. This is just an idea, please feel free to close it or move it into some backlog if you like.

[incendial]

That looks so cool! Thanks for sharing that idea and I think we should implement it too with customizable costs. In 4.0 we will support commands and that looks like a great candidate for a new command.

[roman-petrov]

that's great you like it!

[incendial]

@roman-petrov Do you want to try to implement it by yourself?

[roman-petrov]

@incendial - am going to ten day vacation today. So not now - maybe I will decide later. We will definitely need such feature in our company, but this will happen in a few month.

[incendial]

am going to ten day vacation today. So not now - maybe I will decide later. We will definitely need such feature in our company, but this will happen in a few month.

Okay, have a nice vacation!

This is... actually awesome! Is this feature going anywhere soon? I wish I could help by implementing it myself, unluckily I'm not skilled enough, yet.

[incendial]

We currently have different options on how to implement dept cost calculation and no final vision yet. So, I don't think that we'll add it very soon, but more likely in several months.

[roman-petrov]

this feature would become life-changer if we implement not only technical debt cost calculation but also "pay by card" option to pay entire project technical debt off 😄