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All code sucks. Your code, my code, everyone's code. For every codebase, there exists a significantly loud contingency of eyeballers who will hate it. I've gott
by jordigh 9y ago
All code sucks. Your code, my code, everyone's code. For every codebase, there exists a significantly loud contingency of eyeballers who will hate it. I've gotten into arguments with unpleasant people who hate GNU Octave's code. The very first time I showed my C++ code to someone, which solved a problem in what I thought was a clever way, their only response was to say "why are you using cout, use printf instead, and what's with the horrible indentation format?"
Code shame and code shaming is real. But this should never prevent code from being published. Your users can always benefit from having the code available, so you should give them that code.
- JoeAltmaier 9y agoHeck just ask anybody on a code review. In my experience, they are simply code shaming and one-up-manship institutionalized. No effort made to address feature or correctness. No, endless squibble about names, indentation and which particular language feature they prefer. I know two companies that are hamstrung at this very moment, by endless code review nonsense delaying projects indefinitely. They think more people will help. Ha. </rant>
- anonymousrex 9y ago> Your users can always benefit from having the code available, so you should give them that code. Thanks. This is the mindset I plan to stick with!