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Hardest part of reading code is knowing where to start. I wasn't around at this point, but I can only imagine the horror of a C programmer seeing their beautifu

by olah_1 5y ago

Hardest part of reading code is knowing where to start. I wasn't around at this point, but I can only imagine the horror of a C programmer seeing their beautiful art broken apart into a bunch of nonsensical files in C++. I like that Golang started to undo some of this issue of hundreds of little files that jump all over.

Jtsummers 5y ago
> I can only imagine the horror of a C programmer seeing their beautiful art broken apart into a bunch of nonsensical files in C++. C uses multiple files as well.
jcun4128 5y ago
where is main... ha Yeah I'm trying to work on something for visual code navigation and also project management just a brain fart but yeah.
- olah_1 5y ago
  Yeah "main", which contains 5 lines. So you gotta find where the real action is and down the rabbit hole you go.
  - jcun4128 5y ago
    Yeah if you're lucky prev/current dev can give you an overview how it flows/works.
mypalmike 5y ago
Some codebases have many thousands of files. And some of these projects are very readable. Properly factored code is readable because of its structure, well considered abstractions, and conceptual locality, not from being placed into a small number of files. In any event, I don't know how language choice has much to do with this.