Comment by jugg1es
5 years ago
I think there is a big difference between the the amount of code versus the number of decisions a piece of code has to make. When I think of 'code minimalism', I think of it along the lines of reducing the number of decisions made, but that doesn't always track with the amount of code. Bugs are always going to increase as the number of decisions are increased.
Exactly. You can get to the goal of less lines rather easily but it results in absolutely disgusting code since you're doing things like creating overly complex lines with nested ternary expressions.
Easy to read code with fewer decisions should be the goal of a code minimalist.