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You are supposed to hate your code. If you don't hate it, you aren't trying hard enough. I would not equate hating the code with the code being something to b
by ohyes 16y ago
You are supposed to hate your code.
If you don't hate it, you aren't trying hard enough.
I would not equate hating the code with the code being something to be ashamed of.
I hate every goddamn piece of code I write.
- cheez 16y agoI thought it was only me. But I periodically go back and stare at how beautiful some of my code is too.
- zmmmmm 16y agoI seem to have a 3 year window during which I hate the code and then I come back and think, "wow, that's pretty nice code, why don't I do code like that any more?". I think I spend a lot of time obsessing over small warts and it takes time for those to recede into the background where they belong.
- gbog 16y agoI hate my code but usually I hate other's code even more. What makes me think my code is not so horrible is when two days after my commit I check commits from my teams on it, and I see their updates nicely integrating the logic I built, proving they understood easily how it is working. The more I code, the more I do it for other people getting behind, and also the more I "flatten" the code. By that I mean: - Remove recursions - Remove pretty hacks - Split dense logic (one line = one thing) - Replace comments by properly named function calls - Factorize everything that is happening more than thrice - Linearize sequences of steps - Remove nice to have just in case, but never used function parameters - etc.
- 3dFlatLander 16y agoI'm always biased against my code as well. But man.. Software with a million downloads is something to be proud of. That's a lot of people getting use out of something you created.
- ErrantX 16y agoOne of my uni professors had a good maxim he has posted above his desk: love the software, hate the code