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> My experience as well, most closed source code I have to work with has an objectively worse quality than most open source code I choose to work with. I think
by dozzie 9y ago
> My experience as well, most closed source code I have to work with has an objectively worse quality than most open source code I choose to work with.
I think this is mostly because
> most [...] code I have to work with has an objectively worse quality than most [...] code I choose to work with.
- vidarh 9y agoI think that explains a lot of it in general. There's vast mountains of horribly messy open source code, but most of it will never get any traction unless/until someone cleans it up. So popular open source code will either be relatively clean and/or have other important qualities that lets people overlook how messy it is. For proprietary code, on the other hand, we often don't get to pick and choose.