I'm not talking about impressing people.

We used to be concerned about code quality. Are we not anymore?

Crassness was a signal. Still is, to me — in a human I find that people who write crass code are going to cause me trouble.

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estearum 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

"Code quality" encompasses a lot of dimensions, one of which is impressing your colleagues, and many of which there's virtually no reason to care about now.

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Arainach 6 hours ago | parent [-]

On the contrary, it's more important than ever. With ever more code being generated, it's essential that the code be understandable and maintainable - by human and machine.

	▲	michaelchisari 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		And quality is the new differentiator when everyone can generate slop.

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pydry 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Nobody cares about code quality /s

They only care about the things which you can only get with good code quality like reliability and speed of development.

	▲	estearum 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Right, and to the extent that your coding practices contribute to reliability and speed of development, they are "of quality." Now do the same exercise for "impressiveness" and "crassness." Here, I'll do it for you: > Nobody cares about code quality /s > They only care about the things which you can only get with good code quality like impressiveness and lack of crassness. Sounds silly doesn't it?