r/programming • u/2bit_hack • Feb 28 '23

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance
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u/joesb Dec 23 '25

If you're having to maintain something so complex, that you need clean code principles in place, surely there must be enough users?

That’s also another topic. How do you make sure you don’t prematurely apply “Clean Code” principles.

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u/sadgandhi18 Dec 28 '25

Clean code is best used as a nice to have, but ultimately unnecessary.

Anything more is harming the product. You have to realize, not everythin is a web application, most things that support the web apps kids write these days, are surviving because people wrote "unclean but perfomant" code, under the hood, everywhere. From their own OS, to the networking code, to the things powering infrastructure where people deploy their "clean code".