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The top Disqus comment, by Steve Klabnik: "As someone who maintains _why's code these days, please, write some tests."
by ameliaquining 4y ago
The top Disqus comment, by Steve Klabnik:
"As someone who maintains _why's code these days, please, write some tests."
- steveklabnik 4y agoI don’t have a ton of time right now, so I’ll just say: I have very complicated feelings about that comment, and have for years now.
- turtleyacht 4y agoThank-you, Steve.
- ameliaquining 4y agoThat's entirely fair. I do think the sentiment is basically good advice for people working on projects that involve more than one person over time.
- aliqot 4y agono time like the present, we're all here seated at the secret meeting of the midnight society :)
- nextaccountic 4y ago_why was an extremely influential programmer, but he optimized for fun while writing, at expense of misery while debugging or changing the code years later. This can be felt in the whole Ruby ecosystem even today. His distaste for tests is just a consequence of that.