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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by sethammons on Tuesday July 18, 2023 @04:04PM (#36778368)
I've heard the drum against clever code for over a decade. This sums it up well:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan

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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by valenterry on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @03:21AM (#36783075)
"If code is written as clevery as possible, it's surely written in a way that it's easy to debug it"... is what I would reply, but I get the gist. :-)
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Re:Ten Years of “Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh by Tainnor on Wednesday July 19, 2023 @12:39PM (#36789267)
It's very unclear what people mean by "clever". For some people, a map or a fold is already "clever", while for others, this is just very straightforward code.
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