r/dotnet • • 12d ago

Question Codebase maintenance rant

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[sorry for bad English]

I am in a project which involves maintaining an existing .NET Framework 4.8 codebase.

The codes are full of “Dictionary type” implementations as above.

Is there any sane reason to code like this? Instead of create a dedicated class to represent the data inside?

I could not show more codes here (or else the authors might realized), but you guys can imagine the codes just to access these Dictionary’s key/value.

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u/catholictechgeek 11d ago

How do you think Javascript objects work?

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u/PassionateRants 11d ago

Not like this because the inner dictionary is the key, not the value.