Re:Ask HN: How do you write production level code?
by smt88 on Monday December 21, 2015 @04:48PM
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Work on an open-source project or at a company with someone who knows the answer to this question and has been doing it for many years.
A frustrating fact about coding is that you don't know what you don't know. You feel like an expert, and then someone else shoots you down by introducing you to a new security risk you've never heard of or a technique that's better than the one you've been using.
This risk is a lot lower when you have an experienced team around you. Whatever you might be missing, someone else has a chance of catching it.
It's also much easier to write production-level code when you use a language with robust typing and mature, widely-used, well-tested libraries.
A frustrating fact about coding is that you don't know what you don't know. You feel like an expert, and then someone else shoots you down by introducing you to a new security risk you've never heard of or a technique that's better than the one you've been using.
This risk is a lot lower when you have an experienced team around you. Whatever you might be missing, someone else has a chance of catching it.
It's also much easier to write production-level code when you use a language with robust typing and mature, widely-used, well-tested libraries.