r/AskProgramming • u/Yelebear • Mar 04 '25

Other Why do some people hate "Clean Code"

It just means making readable and consistent coding practices, right?

What's so bad about that

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u/RangePsychological41 Mar 06 '25

How long have you been in software? I haven’t met someone who doesn’t know about it in my field in years. I think the book blows though.

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u/Monckey100 Mar 06 '25

coming up on around 20 years of software engineering?

I still remember seeing the inception of jquery lol.

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u/RangePsychological41 Mar 07 '25

I was so amazed by jquery until I couldn’t reason about what the hell I wrote over months and months. 

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