Comment on How do you wrap your head around large established software projects in order to contribute to them?
OldMrFish@lemmy.one 1 year agoWhile I agree with all of the above in principle (and even I have trouble reading my own code at times), this part was specifically in response to the section about ‘code optimized to irrecognizability’ and should not be taken as a general statement on finding other people’s code incomprehensible. Deliberately using non-descriptive naming is unfortunately a thing, although thankfully I rarely seen to encounter it anymore.