Do you do any of these? Do you see these habits in others. Clean code is when you look at code and think “of course you would do it that way”. It’s simple, elegant, and straight forward. Once you look at it you can’t think of a better way to do it. It seems ‘obvious’ but only with the power of hindsight. But it’s not something you’ll get much of from these programmers
- The Hoarder – “I’ll add/leave this function because it may come in useful” litters your code with commented out code and unused functions that rot and bloat your code
- Over-Complicator – “I’ve built an xml like nested config value loader to read in my three values instead of using a constant” yeah thanks. And when it turns out to have a bug we’ll spend weeks trying to figure out how it all works and why you wasted company time (and money) writing it.
- Rewriter – “This 3D library doesn’t quite fit my needs. I think I’ll write my own and call it DirectY” and you waste weeks on it, it turns out buggy, has very little hardware support but by the time we find out the entire company is building on it and feels committed to keeping it.
- Obscurer – “MiscValues init function runs ReadStream to setup the CoreFactory” this is not abstract this is waffle
- The Secret Recipe – “Oh it crashed because you have to call unloadAllSettings before you let the class run the deconstructor. But make sure you call close first” so basically no one can use your code without mysterious and random crashes. Thanks for your contribution.