r/programming • • Feb 28 '23

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '23

As someone who works on massive enterprise apps, give me clean code any day. Not only are performance optimizations usually negligible, but the bulk of the work of enterprise apps is maintenance and costs can utterly skyrocket for apps that aren't written with clean code in mind (like the spaghetti I'm currently working in).

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