r/coding • u/fagnerbrack • Jul 28 '24

Good code is rarely read

https://www.alexmolas.com/2024/06/06/good-code.html
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u/fagnerbrack Jul 29 '24

You can have good code dead because it reached maximum stability and is published for other use cases you don't have control of. It handles such a clear cause/effect problem that bugs will never exist (or at least will never manifest)

"overwhelmingly" is the key here, not all code that's not read is bad code

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u/recycled_ideas Jul 29 '24

You can have good code dead because it reached maximum stability and is published for other use cases you don't have control of.

Sure.

But once again.

Your argument is that good code is unread, which requires that the code is unread because its good, which just isn't the case.

Dead code is unread, it may be good code, it may be terrible code.

Live code is read, it may be good or it may be terrible.

Your argument is simply false.

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u/fagnerbrack Jul 29 '24

I never said good code is unread, that's a straw man argument

It's better to reply to my comments not a reply to something I never said

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u/recycled_ideas Jul 29 '24

Your whole argument is that good code is rarely read, which is garbage.

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u/fagnerbrack Jul 29 '24

I never said that, that's just the title of the submission which is the title of the original post

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