It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code

Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by cratermoon on Sunday July 16, 2023 @11:54AM (#36748401)

I worked with a programmer who littered his code with the incantations that disabled the linter, compiler warnings, static analyzer flags, and so on. His code passed all the automatic tools with nary a blip. Was it good code?

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Re:It Takes 6 Days to Change 1 Line of Code by RHSeeger on Monday July 17, 2023 @12:12AM (#36754002)

Static analyzers are a tool. And peer reviews are a tool. And compilers are a tool. Being able to combine tools together (as I noted we did) helps you generate better code.

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