Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves?

Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? by spoonsort on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:43PM (#44595246)

When someone uses an odd number of indentation! That really grinds my gears for some reason.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? by into_ruin on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:46PM (#44595294)

This feels like an urban legend designed to scare kids

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Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? by ranger_danger on Thursday July 17, 2025 @12:46PM (#44595299)

https://github.com/libretro/RetroArch

Nearly a million lines of 3-spaced C89, still in heavy perpetual development.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? by techbrovanguard on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:03PM (#44600455)

i tried to submit a patch to retroarch and it was one of the least pleasant experiences i've had in a while. makefile hell, layers and layers of incomprehensible macros, and spaghetti code everywhere. no thank you. i may be a masochist but i still respect my time.

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Re:Ask HN: What are your current programming pet peeves? by ranger_danger on Thursday July 17, 2025 @10:14PM (#44600511)

Same, IMO most of the main devs are extremely toxic, and their turnover rate among contributors is the worst I've ever seen in my 30 years of professional and volunteer/FOSS coding.

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