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Irina Stanescu's avatar

I once added something to a file originally created by Jeff Dean's and it was the most beautiful code I've ever read.

As an ex-Googler, I'm a fan of readability because it makes everything so much easier and faster to understand and modify. I missed it after switching companies.

Also, readability becomes increasingly important after the original authors / owners of the code leave the company.

With respect to the fact that it's slower, I think after a while you just get used to thinking about building the code in a readable way, so all in all it's not that much slower. Also it saves a ton of time spent if you need to troubleshoot an issue if you're on-call for example.

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Engineer's Codex's avatar

Thank you for sharing Irina! Totally agree with your take on readability.

Also, definitely cool you got to edit a file created by Jeff Dean himself 😄

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Craig Eddy's avatar

Re. your last paragraph: "Biofeedback works wonders" 8}

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