> Readability doesn't matter much when you have 10,000+ lines of code. You aren't going to read all that code (...) You got it entirely backwards. Readability

> Readability doesn't matter much when you have 10,000+ lines of code. You aren't going to read all that code (...) You got it entirely backwards. Readability becomes far more important with the size of your project. When you get a bug report of a feature request, you need to dive into the code and update the relevant bits. With big projects, odds are you will need to change bits of the code you never knew they existed. The only way that's possible is if the code is clear and it's easy to sift through, understand, and follow. > You need a system of code management (documentation, diagram, IDE, tests, etc), to explain in a human-friendly way what the hell is going on. That system of code management is the code itself. Any IDE supports searching for references, jump to definitions, see inheritance chains, etc. Readable code is code that is easy to navigate and whose changes are obvious.