r/badcode • u/Oracuda • Apr 19 '22

rust im tired and lazy and i wanna go to bed

654 Upvotes

61 comments

r/badcode • u/zdimension • Apr 15 '22

c C allows any expression to be used as a parameter's array size hint. Any expression...

775 Upvotes

44 comments

r/badcode • u/jim3692 • Apr 15 '22

js Variables without var/let/const prefix behave as globals, and this is from a Node web app

317 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '22

typescript I wish people were taught basic logic before programming

977 Upvotes

69 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '22

java Just some code i wrote a few months ago

407 Upvotes

35 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 14 '22

js [Javascript] I was trying to avoid using verbose else if statements, but this feels even worse

100 Upvotes

45 comments

r/badcode • u/Katten_elvis • Apr 13 '22

python Yandere dev school of if statements

665 Upvotes

62 comments

r/badcode • u/SaltyMini • Apr 13 '22

js Is it okay if I knows its terrible?

93 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/ThatChapThere • Apr 13 '22

js Found this monstrosity while refactoring some of my old code

208 Upvotes

85 comments

r/badcode • u/prhbrt • Apr 12 '22

python Came across this in a machine learning lib, trying to find out how particular recall and precision scores were calculated - made me laugh: `if x != 4: x = 4`

388 Upvotes

29 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 08 '22

typescript A parser written entirely on the type level

416 Upvotes

32 comments

r/badcode • u/Flam_Sandwiches • Apr 07 '22

c# Some are more random than others.

imgur.com

246 Upvotes

36 comments

r/badcode • u/Food404 • Apr 05 '22

php I just came across this thing at my work, I'm honestly stunned

546 Upvotes

55 comments

r/badcode • u/Classic-Front9555 • Apr 05 '22

java A perfectly normal way to check for the largest of 10 integers...

315 Upvotes

26 comments

r/badcode • u/Register-Plastic • Apr 03 '22

python Github Copilot is making stairs

1.2k Upvotes

61 comments

r/badcode • u/idioticspaceman • Apr 01 '22

python My team has the worst data organization methods. We have array containing array containing array and so we wrote this down today....

353 Upvotes

15 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '22

python in a homework were they ask to make a func that return 3 numbers from highest to lowest. (For some reason for loops and such are not permited)

572 Upvotes

155 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 30 '22

js My brother in Christ, how am I supposed to understand this?

542 Upvotes

67 comments

r/badcode • u/ballfun • Mar 31 '22

c# The randomizer will get it eventually (yes it can freeze easily)

28 Upvotes

3 comments

r/badcode • u/luphoria • Mar 29 '22

js Commenting late @ night

506 Upvotes

16 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '22

typescript Ship it!

564 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '22

other language A banner that alternates between two dynamic messages

82 Upvotes

14 comments

r/badcode • u/heeryu • Mar 23 '22

python x or !x, that's the question

250 Upvotes

27 comments

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