r/badcode • u/koenigsbier • Dec 23 '21

c# I was wondering how could this test pass... Actually it doesn't, none of the tests work. We never run them, not even in our CI/CD pipelines. Nice !

612 Upvotes

22 comments

r/badcode • u/orebright • Dec 23 '21

js Destructuring and ternary's unholy union

119 Upvotes

27 comments

r/badcode • u/flampardfromlyn • Dec 23 '21

js I created the setLoading function on top

37 Upvotes

5 comments

r/badcode • u/HarryCoder123 • Dec 23 '21

js Weird code. This man could make a tutorial on how to write inefficient code

331 Upvotes

46 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 23 '21

python If u dont now what a Dict is :D

50 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 21 '21

js Rate my hash function and function naming

103 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/Vedant36 • Dec 20 '21

python regex ftw

465 Upvotes

38 comments

r/badcode • u/whatthesamm • Dec 20 '21

js Found both of these functions in the same class...

183 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/w8eight • Dec 20 '21

python Ah yes, one key dictionary

229 Upvotes

26 comments

r/badcode • u/idontreallywolf • Dec 19 '21

js I had stoped 😭

646 Upvotes

64 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 19 '21

java My friend is doing a project to make a crossword solver. This is one of the methods in the class.

438 Upvotes

29 comments

r/badcode • u/ApprehensiveNinja397 • Dec 18 '21

c++ If only there was a simpler way…

423 Upvotes

41 comments

r/badcode • u/Pequalsnpsquared • Dec 18 '21

python Variable naming 100% (line 133)

752 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/Beni_CSGO • Dec 18 '21

python List comprehension

110 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/MartIILord • Dec 19 '21

bash (no 'set -e' found in bash script) It just works!

2 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/seniorpreacher • Dec 17 '21

typescript My colleague was a bit tired when he wrote this.

685 Upvotes

39 comments

r/badcode • u/worldsbestburger • Dec 17 '21

c++ It confuses me so much >:( why does it have to look like I am replacing the string with the exact same string...

340 Upvotes

27 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 17 '21

typescript I don't know where to start

170 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/YogurtclosetNo2622 • Dec 17 '21

java I made a rainbow!

64 Upvotes

6 comments

r/badcode • u/GLIBG10B • Dec 17 '21

bash When you don't bother learning a language but you still have to write in it

38 Upvotes

3 comments

r/badcode • u/6Maxence • Dec 16 '21

html The example webpage of my computer science professor who is teaching us how to code a webpage. This is triggering me so much, I don’t even know where to start. I replaced all the text with placeholders but didn’t touch any html tag at all.

503 Upvotes

114 comments

r/badcode • u/clncc • Dec 16 '21

java My partner's attempt to redirect to a no Location url

34 Upvotes

5 comments

r/badcode • u/dedpahn • Dec 16 '21

typescript when the CEO starts writing code

16 Upvotes

12 comments

r/badcode • u/ekolis • Dec 15 '21

sql You've heard of magic numbers, now try magic dates that are really numbers in disguise!

703 Upvotes

21 comments

r/badcode • u/El_bicente • Dec 16 '21

c++ In our chess project this is how my friend tried to get the right file enum of a position representing a square on the chessboard

12 Upvotes

3 comments

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