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I thought so too until I looked at the code. It's truly horrible and not in a "clean code absolutist" way, but more in a "digging a giant hole that will make th
by mardifoufs 3y ago
I thought so too until I looked at the code. It's truly horrible and not in a "clean code absolutist" way, but more in a "digging a giant hole that will make the entire thing untouchable". And going by the stats he provides that's exactly what's going on.
FWIW, this article is originally written in french. And while the French version is definitely still abrasive, it sounds more normal. The writing style does not map to English as well for sure.
- internetter 3y agoYeah, I've never seen a codebase more terrifying. It's a wonder that thing manages to work as well as it does
- kramerger 3y agoI belive the project was started by someone who was not a programmer. I bet your first project didn't look that great either ;) I am currently reviewing safety critical code written by two very respected companies and occasionally that code looks worse than the snippets author showed.
- mardifoufs 3y agoThe problem is that the snippets shown are all from new features and code written in the past 2-3years! I would obviously not judge old code otherwise