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this. Our job is to write profitable code. Not beautiful code. There's a balance; too much tech debt and the code isn't profitable. But too little tech debt is
by marcus_holmes 5y ago
this. Our job is to write profitable code. Not beautiful code.
There's a balance; too much tech debt and the code isn't profitable. But too little tech debt is not profitable either.
- kayamon 5y agoThat’s not your job, that’s just how you choose to live your life. You reject beauty.
- xboxnolifes 5y agoWhen you program as an art form, you get the salary of an artist.
- caffeine 5y agoAppreciate your point but this is a false dichotomy - (to me, at least) there's beauty in function. In fact, it's sort of the only non-subjective aesthetic. Code like the Linux kernel isn't necessarily all beautiful in terms of overwrought abstractions, but I find quite beautiful the accretion of small changes and thought over time that has made it suited to task.