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Business seldom fail for a single reason, but poor code quality can be a major contributor to failure. Do you need to pay 20 programmers rather than 10? Do yo
by jacobsenscott 6y ago
Business seldom fail for a single reason, but poor code quality can be a major contributor to failure.
Do you need to pay 20 programmers rather than 10?
Do you have a higher customer turnover rate because they encounter too many bugs and lose trust in the system?
Do you lose out on sales because you can't close the feature gaps with your competitors?
Are you unable to respond to customer support requests in a timely fashion because there are too many, or fixing the problems is really hard?
- thinkingkong 6y agoParent said vast majority and they're correct. As a corollary I've seen companies with impeccable code bases fail dramatically.
- collyw 6y agoA company with an impeccable code base? Fake news.
- mlthoughts2018 6y agoYou’re missing the point. “Fling spaghetti code at the wall” will produce many failures and a few winners - the winners will not serve as evidence that poor spaghetti code is a perfectly viable business strategy.
- thinkingkong 6y agoOn the contrary; thats usually what happens. I'm not saying its _correct_ but the amount of cargo-culting I hear intermediate spaghetti-unicorn engineers repeat means they're actually inferring that it's a repeatable process.