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> How is it different from the status quo of people just doing the wrong thing or copy pasting bad code? Well, yes, the wrong code would be used. However - th
by IncRnd 5y ago
> How is it different from the status quo of people just doing the wrong thing or copy pasting bad code?
Well, yes, the wrong code would be used. However - the wrong code would then become more prevelant as an answer from gh, causing more people to blindly use it. It's a self-perpetuating cycle of finding and using bad and wrong code.
- ehsankia 5y agoHmm, not quite. My point was that if they aren't a good enough programmer to understand why the code is wrong, then chances are they would've written bad code or copy pasted bad code anyways. It just makes the cycle faster. And again, I could argue that the opposite could happen too, people who would otherwise have written bad code could be given suggestions of better code that they would've written.
- IncRnd 5y ago> Hmm, not quite. My point was that if they aren't a good enough programmer to understand why the code is wrong, then chances are they would've written bad code or copy pasted bad code anyways. It just makes the cycle faster. No, not quite. It also makes the cycle more permanent and its results deeply ingrained, which is what is actually relevant.
- Jcowell 5y agoEither way it wouldn’t matter since the only thing short of stopping the cycle is stack overflow to close down and a new stack overflow not to open up. A very unlikely scenario for this industry. Either way , no matter the difference in time frame, the result would have always been permanent.