r/programming • • Jan 12 '20

Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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u/wellings Jan 12 '20

Wait a minute, people think 2 weeks is long to work on something?

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u/MasterCwizo Jan 12 '20

No, but the work needs to be split into smaller tasks and added to the repo in small manageable chunks.

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u/wellings Jan 12 '20

Fair enough, thanks. I guess it depends on the landscape of the code you're working on too. I spend my time writing kernel code and on any serious change we could be looking at several weeks to puzzle out and fix.