Code Readability Debate
The cluster discusses the importance of code readability over terseness, cleverness, and ease of writing, emphasizing that code is read more often than written and should prioritize maintainability and comprehension.
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Code readability is massively underrated.
It's not about understanding, it's about readability.
It looks like this one is sacrificing readability for unnecessary terseness.
Can we stop assuming that only the syntaxes we are accustomed to are the only "readable" options?
Code is read more than written, readability matters.
Reading code is harder than writing. It's good to make writing harder so reading is easier.
Readability, maintainability, etc. if that matters to you.
Because readability is more important than writeability.
'being smart' != 'reason to reduce readability'
Code readability trumps cleverness.