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CuriouslyCyesterday at 2:29 PM2 repliesview on HN

> 2. Spaghetti code or not matters very little, especially in the beginning, before you even know or understand the scope of the project and what it can become in the future.

Demonstrably false. Here and on Reddit, everyone will dogpile on a project to call it slop and flag it if they see code smells they don't like. Unless it was written by someone they already know and like from twitter devgooning, in which case it's amazing and everyone should use it.


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bigfishrunningyesterday at 4:14 PM

it's possible that "popular on HN and Reddit" is not a universal goal for writing code...

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tylerchildsyesterday at 8:21 PM

> devgooning

Excellent choice of phrase. Succinct and to the point.