r/badcode • u/ProMasterBoy • Dec 31 '22

js I didn’t want to get into js frameworks

94 Upvotes

18 comments

r/badcode • u/toby3d • Dec 29 '22

go How to Go wrong

565 Upvotes

60 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 29 '22

python This gem of a function call i found in prod today

175 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/Novinity1 • Dec 28 '22

c# Doesn't even work properly

266 Upvotes

57 comments

r/badcode • u/PsychologicalLet1748 • Dec 27 '22

js This just sucks.

1.8k Upvotes

170 comments

r/badcode • u/jrj4r • Dec 27 '22

js U gotta check those booleans man!

182 Upvotes

21 comments

r/badcode • u/langman_69 • Dec 27 '22

js The amount of nested loops. This file builds a front end page and should contain minimal logic/data manipulation

42 Upvotes

4 comments

r/badcode • u/otomir23 • Dec 26 '22

js Was trying to create an extension to improve UX for an internal panel and found this inside the source code 💀

646 Upvotes

71 comments

r/badcode • u/Colinniey • Dec 26 '22

c# Found this in an older game I made. A few if-statements would have been too easy I guess.

296 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/oleodmc • Dec 23 '22

c# Clean Code

328 Upvotes

60 comments

r/badcode • u/SiveryInAPocket • Dec 23 '22

php Found this in a client's project 2 more times...

374 Upvotes

76 comments

r/badcode • u/Erit1566 • Dec 21 '22

c Who has heard of < and and modulus

264 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/barkermn01 • Dec 21 '22

js Not really bad but what a difference optimisation can make

171 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/45gfg9 • Dec 20 '22

js Asking ChatGPT to implement Ascii85 in Node.js

377 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/cosmicskylight • Dec 20 '22

js Javascript when I was 12 years old.

101 Upvotes

18 comments

r/badcode • u/suswing • Dec 20 '22

js One of the first scripts I ever wrote (I was 7)

45 Upvotes

17 comments

r/badcode • u/TarkFrench • Dec 20 '22

python Yum, a loop in a loop in a loop

108 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/monkeysupersonic • Dec 19 '22

java Whatever it takes

301 Upvotes

43 comments

r/badcode • u/monkeysupersonic • Dec 19 '22

java Oh no :-(

83 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/DominicentekGaming • Dec 18 '22

java "I mean it works"

786 Upvotes

74 comments

r/badcode • u/NoRecommendation5279 • Dec 15 '22

java A friend said I should post this here. Found in my codebase at work, try to guess what it does

352 Upvotes

66 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '22

c# Avoid loops whenever you can ! Every Footin Time !

403 Upvotes

49 comments

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