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Could you take pride in rewriting the code? Maybe as an open source adventure with others? Going through the shame of showing it off is more valuable on its ow
by friendlybus 7y ago
Could you take pride in rewriting the code? Maybe as an open source adventure with others?
Going through the shame of showing it off is more valuable on its own merits than leaving it as is, regardless of the code quality or social outcomes.
- seren 7y agoI believe that as code "writers", we tend to have a bias that code should well-written. And I don't think it is that important. If you are working in a global company with a distributed workforce, well-written code is mandatory because it is a way to communicate and to maintain the code in the long term. Even more so if this is a critical code that could kill. But if you started as a lone developer for a game hobby project, the achievement is not about the code quality, but more about the product as a whole you managed to ship and have users or customers. So I don't think there is anything inherently shameful in writing bad code, it highly depends on the context
- Jaruzel 7y agoIf I could upvote this x100, I would.
- AstralStorm 7y agoWell, there should be a bit of shame in writing code that's buggy or not working at all... Of course if you avoid that while still writing a mess, it's mostly fine.
- friendlybus 7y agoThe shame is a personal thing. Being in a community of people that value high quality implementations or having high personal standards for work is a good driver for code shame. It's a choice to go through that shame. Code is a neutral medium.