Comment on What are some common misconceptions about programming that you'd like to debunk?
hawgietonight@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Myth: code can be ugly as long as it works, don’t spend company time on making it look good or on minor optimizations.
The truth is that you can tell when effort has been put into a job. Even if it just works, the lack of discipline means that in the end it will be difficult to maintain and probably will fail in unexpected situations.
Every language has it’s conventions, but if I spot more than a line of separation between blocks of code, that is a common telltale sign of noob. Run from that shit.
saplyng@kbin.social 9 months ago
Lines of separation are bad? I like adding a few empty lines to denote a different logical section so it's easier for me to read back later :c
hawgietonight@lemmy.world 9 months ago
One line is fine if used wisely, everybody does it for readability. The issue is when you need more than one.
Fermiverse@feddit.de 9 months ago
PEP8 is looking at you
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
The idea is that often you could be using actual logical separations (functions etc.) instead of whitespace. IMO whitespace has its place though, including for this.
pkill@programming.dev 9 months ago
uhh seen this shit with some almost verbatim rewrites with no regards to your code being idiomatic to the point of it all feeling almost verbatim. Like some PHP devs getting confused by the lack of classes in Go and instead of using method receivers and composition over inheritance creating one 250-line behemoth public function to replace a PHP class.
Feathercrown@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Oh no