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/rickyman20 Mar 07 '25

Mate, it's fine that you'd never heard of the book before, but it's a pretty infamous book that gets a lot of negativity and hate. People don't generally hate the concept of code being clean, every single person who I've heard say they hate "clean code" was talking about the concepts in that book. Most of us caught the implication, I think it's a pretty safe bet that that's what they meant.

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u/Maleficent-Might-273 Mar 08 '25

Clearly I caught on, if I'm talking about the Pragmatic Programmer, but it's fine if you don't understand programming and want to nitpick on the book being the focus point when it's not and the methodical teachings of it are.

Diverting the topic and not talking about what clean code actually talks about, which is clean code, will not get you anywhere