News for hackers. Stuff that matters.
Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by morelisp on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:54AM (#36748397)
Junior code is not usually more complex because of bad naming conventions and inconsistent styling and related issues that tools can help with, although of course these don't help its readability overall. Rather it usually has control flow that's far too literal a translation of requirements leading to an exponential explosion of paths, insufficient and/or over-eager error handling (often both at the same time), poor representational choices leading to inefficiency or more special cases, and so on. None of these can be effectively automatically detected.

There are no comments on this comment yet.