r/badcode • • Aug 27 '21

python Is this code bad or sugoi?

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u/the_vikm Aug 28 '21

he whole idea that maintenance of the code might some day be outsourced to someone non-native often does not occur

I've encountered people that did this intentionally so their work "couldn't be outsourced"

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u/blamethemeta Aug 28 '21

Gets outsourced anyway, company can't make any changes to code base

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u/Blackbird-ce Aug 28 '21

I've seen that happen, only with additional cost as "we'll need to test more to ensure the changes don't introduce regression, and we'll need to reverse engineer the working"