TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghetti code

Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by harrisonjackson on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:42PM (#15461908)

I'd say one person over ~12 years is basically multiple developers working on it. I look back on code after a couple months and it often feels like someone else wrote it.

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by eric_h on Thursday October 12, 2017 @06:47PM (#15461938)

Yep, and in particular, one person over 12 years with one to three month breaks between sessions of working on it. He had no choice but to "monkey see, monkey do" what his past self did, and the resultant product is ... difficult to maintain, to put it nicely.

[Edit: I don't blame him - I understand how it happened, and also why he wanted to get out ;)]

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Re:TerrariaClone – An incomprehensible hellscape of spaghett... by zelos on Friday October 13, 2017 @08:06AM (#15464866)

git blame regret: "who wrote this crap?...oh, right, I did"

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