| ▲ | mvkel 5 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||
So here we have OpenSSL, coded by humans, universally adopted by the Internet, universally deemed to be terrible code. More evidence that "coding elegance" is irrelevant to a product's success, which bodes well for AI generated code. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | not_a_bot_4sho 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
If anything, this is evidence that coding elegance has value. The unexpected part here being that AI brings specks of elegance to a terrible, inelegant codebase. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | lmm 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
The sad reality is that if your code is available for free and works most of the time, nothing else matters. I'm not sure I would call it "product success" given that OpenSSL's income is enough to cover, like, one dude in a LCOL country some of the time. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | SkiFire13 an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
I find it scary TBH that we're on track to have more OpenSSL-level software. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | chris_wot 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
It seems to me that after seeing some of the presentations by the LibreSSL folks that OpenSSL is not evidence of elegant code. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | kajaktum 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||||||||
Openssl? Code elegance? | ||||||||||||||||||||
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