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    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    The only thing worse than code I don't understand is code I do understand that's literally been copied and pasted sixteen times in the same file.

    Literally encapsulation, its the first fucking thing they teach you in Dev 101, my fucking god people please I'm begging you!

    [–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 12 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (3 children)

    I went to school for actuarial sciences but im basically an overpaid python programmer. If an actual dev evee see my code, they would shot in the face for sure (at least my boss thinks im a magician because I do in half an hour in poorly optimized python code processes it took him days to do on excel). I don't even know what encapsulation even means lmao.

    [–] Kempeth@feddit.de 5 points 9 months ago

    Basically if you need the same logic in two places instead of copying it to the second place you make it into a function and use that function in both places.

    That way if you need that logic to change you only need to make that edit once regardless of whether you use it one time or one thousand times.

    [–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

    I don’t even know what encapsulation even means lmao.

    Crying

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 9 months ago

    It's basically a fancy way to reuse code.

    [–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Samir! You're breaking the build!

    [–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Dev 101 is not followed in real life... Sadly, caring about code quality is difficult or impossible when you work with others.

    [–] Opafi@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Then you're working with the wrong others.

    [–] mrmanager@lemmy.today 5 points 9 months ago

    I didn't pick them. :)

    [–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

    Dude, you don't have to be a dev to write code. There are many self-taught coders out there. I do agree that they should read a book or two regarding coding pracices, but hey, you don't like it, rewrite it 🤷.

    Me, personally, if someone else made it, I need it and I don't have time to meddle (I usually don't), I just use it. With all do respect, fuck coding practices, I got more important things in my life to worry about.

    [–] Theharpyeagle@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

    Meh, maintainability is king. Sticking to the letter of the style law is probably not necessary, but ignoring badly structured code now is going to bite you in the ass when it comes time to change any of it.