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Some of the most beautiful code I’ve ever seen has come of an engineer going off for several months and coming back with a 1MB patch. That kind of time allows
by pizlonator 7y ago
Some of the most beautiful code I’ve ever seen has come of an engineer going off for several months and coming back with a 1MB patch.
That kind of time allows some actual deep thought to happen. Some kinds of outcomes won’t happen any other way. I agree with that point in the quora answer.
This comes to mind as a recent example of an engineering project that had no incremental
alternative: https://webkit.org/blog/9329/a-new-bytecode-format-for-javascriptcore/ https://webkit.org/blog/9329/a-new-bytecode-format-for-javas...
- InvOfSmallC 7y agoI'm sorry but what's the point of a 1MB patch of beautiful code? Did this programmer actually develivered a business value for the customer or not? I'm not saying that you should not maintain your code nice, decoupled and what note, but having as a major KPI the code being beautiful to me it's non sense.
- pizlonator 7y agoThe point? Read the article. It’s a big perf win. It’s important that it’s beautiful since the bytecode of a VM gets used so much throughout some of the VM’s most complex parts. Beautiful code is easier to use and maintain.
- InvOfSmallC 7y agoI read the article. And I don't really think that we mean the same thing with beautiful code.