Comment by 0x20cowboy
2 hours ago
I’ve seen people say this kind of code was written, but I’ve never seen this kind of code anywhere I have ever worked.
Not saying it doesn’t exist, just saying this sounds dangerously close to a boomer talking about the 1950s
> I’ve seen people say this kind of code was written, but I’ve never seen this kind of code anywhere I have ever worked.
Luckier than me. I've worked at a few places where the code was simultaneously brilliantly written[0] and also unmaintainable nonsense that caused endless problems. One place had its own object model and ORM that absolutely no-one currently at the place understood and literally every bug filed (whilst I was there) could be traced back to that code.
(Probably just a coincidence that most of those places where Perl shops but I've seen it with Go too...)
[0] In terms of "cleverness", not in terms of "maintainability" or "readability".