Re:Clean code won't save the planet
by geofft on Friday November 06, 2020 @11:29AM
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One thing to keep in mind is developer time. If you can finish your personal website without learning about font delivery and then use the remaining time to phonebank for anti-pipeline candidates or get involved in your local government's transportation subcommittee and work to incentivize public transit and biking, that's probably more effective.
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I agree that developer time is the crux, but I take away a different conclusion. Say you have to maintain this code (so, a given). Two weeks later of not having touched it, and if it's bad enough, you'll end up re-writing it from scratch. And this is before we even get to whether or not anyone else has to maintain it. The developer years wasted by dirty code and technical debt should not be ignored.