Sometimes people forget that "Clean Code" is a book, and it's not exactly stellar. This is a pretty thorough tear-down: https://qntm.org/clean https://qntm.org/

Sometimes people forget that "Clean Code" is a book, and it's not exactly stellar. This is a pretty thorough tear-down: https://qntm.org/clean https://qntm.org/clean I'm totally onboard with prioritizing readability over performance for most code, but the style in the book has a lot more tradeoffs than it discloses, and you often don't really appreciate that until you are trying to debug if/how A transitively calls Z in a 10 million line codebase. It's really hard to have a constructive conversation about this though since it's so subjective, any example is too trivial, and any real system is too large.