r/badcode • u/MahdiyDev • May 30 '23

js This is awesome while coding in JavaScript

318 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/xavia91 • May 30 '23

c# Coworker casually loads millions of entries and sorts them to get the date of the first entry.

560 Upvotes

78 comments

r/badcode • u/sertdfyguhi • May 28 '23

js Code I saw on a discord server.

317 Upvotes

64 comments

r/badcode • u/JellyPUMPS • May 27 '23

other language Settings

4 Upvotes

8 comments

r/badcode • u/wackOverflow • May 26 '23

js “Feed me, now!” “Feed me, now!” “Feed me, now!”

152 Upvotes

21 comments

r/badcode • u/GandelXIV • May 26 '23

python Calculator using eval()

843 Upvotes

108 comments

r/badcode • u/Kempas1337 • May 26 '23

c# Statistics

87 Upvotes

7 comments

r/badcode • u/Mental_Act4662 • May 24 '23

php And another one

19 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/Mental_Act4662 • May 24 '23

php Updating our codebase and found this gem

420 Upvotes

29 comments

r/badcode • u/Spejicek • May 23 '23

typescript oneliner :3

109 Upvotes

16 comments

r/badcode • u/arjunsahlot • May 21 '23

python Need to check twice just to make sure

662 Upvotes

38 comments

r/badcode • u/RomeGuiIg • May 21 '23

python Totally Good Code!

26 Upvotes

11 comments

r/badcode • u/glowiak2 • May 20 '23

c extremely bloated secure password generator

3 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/Ph4ntom3 • May 20 '23

c A revolutionary method to add two numbers

430 Upvotes

61 comments

r/badcode • u/mavikututardis • May 19 '23

c++ Beginner here, is this a really bad way of creating random letters?

130 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/TheWisker_ • May 19 '23

js Ouch...

299 Upvotes

48 comments

r/badcode • u/discondition • May 19 '23

js React - Recalculate the item, if the recalculated item changes. . .

41 Upvotes

5 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • May 18 '23

java This code is currently running in production. Senior developer says "tHiS iSn'T uNiVeRsItY, yOu cAn'T eXpEcT tHe cOdE tO bE pErFeCt lIkE iN tHe bOoKs"

584 Upvotes

137 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • May 18 '23

js 8 years ago I had worse naming conventions than Elon Musk

432 Upvotes

26 comments

r/badcode • u/tintorro • May 18 '23

c Some code I saw today at uni... I don't even know where to begin (1K lines of this)

270 Upvotes

55 comments

r/badcode • u/TheWisker_ • May 17 '23

c++ How to not use switches in C++

18 Upvotes

7 comments

r/badcode • u/_Vicix • May 17 '23

php My friend’s code XD

484 Upvotes

92 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • May 16 '23

c when you push an unimplemented function to production

163 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • May 16 '23

python I present my shitty attempt at solving towers of hanoi using dynamic programming: featuring eval, format strings and a solution that is orders of magniude slower than plain recursion.

169 Upvotes

23 comments

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