“Also great when you can use decompilers (Java and .NET especially) to determine exactly how the library code you use works.” Decompiling .NET and earlier read

“Also great when you can use decompilers (Java and .NET especially) to determine exactly how the library code you use works.” Decompiling .NET and earlier reading leaked windows source code have given me the revelation that the people working on these systems are regular people like you and me. Somehow I thought MS or Apple code was something special but it really wasn’t. But I agree: reading source code is good for learning and also empathy. It’s way too easy to look at a code base for five minutes and declare this needs to be totally rewritten because the previous devs wrote bad code