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You can get away with a lot on a single developer project and best practices aren’t in place solely to make code functional. That application would likely fall
by wefarrell 5y ago
You can get away with a lot on a single developer project and best practices aren’t in place solely to make code functional.
That application would likely fall apart if multiple developers of with diverse backgrounds had to maintain it and add new features.
- userbinator 5y agoI don't know what you mean exactly by "diverse backgrounds" and it doesn't matter in this case either, because there were definitely multiple people working on it (although the initial version was the work of one.) They effectively used a forum thread as source control, and just attached their modified versions to the posts.
- suifbwish 5y agoTo be fair even with using best practices, code can still fall apart with multiple developers from diverse backgrounds.
- Dudeman112 5y agoThe conclusion, of course, being that if you need multiple developers the code is less likely to fall apart if they have similar backgrounds ;)