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0 pointstayo421y ago0 comments

How are you defining bad code?

Imo unreadable and undecipherabe code is one subset of bad code.

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I would argue, that in that vast majority of cases, the readability of code is the single most important metric.

If I encounter third party code that is terminally broken, I don’t really care how readable it is, except insofar as I can probably tell it’s terminally broken faster if it’s more readable.

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0 pointstayo421y ago0 comments

How are you defining bad code?

Imo unreadable and undecipherabe code is one subset of bad code.

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dahousecat1y ago

I would argue, that in that vast majority of cases, the readability of code is the single most important metric.

amluto1y ago

If I encounter third party code that is terminally broken, I don’t really care how readable it is, except insofar as I can probably tell it’s terminally broken faster if it’s more readable.

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