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Agreed. I’ve also gone into a codebase and seen the most boring code ever. It looked like examples from an intro to web programming class. The backend did simpl
by klodolph 3y ago
Agreed. I’ve also gone into a codebase and seen the most boring code ever. It looked like examples from an intro to web programming class. The backend did simple parameteried SQL queries. It was a pleasure to work with.
My conclusion is that the real “star” developers will, most of the time, write code that’s so simple, it looks like anyone could have written it. They ship a project on time, with good performance and availability, and then they move on. Anyone can come in and maintain it because the code is so obvious.
- rightbyte 3y agoSo much this. I feel that many developers have some fear of writing simple code. Probably because that is the way newbies do it, i.e. straight forward big functions that do stuff. Reading function pointer dispatch code, disguised as whatever it is called when not C, can be hopeless.