r/cleancode↗
Discussion of coding best-practices
How long is the perfect function? How many parameters should it have? How should you name variables? There is a lot more to writing code than merely creating code that works. Here we discuss questions of style, structure, and architecture.
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r/cleancode has 4.1k members. Top topics: Programming Books, Bad Code Examples and Testing Practices.
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- Bad Code Examples5.6%
- Testing Practices3.3%
- Legacy Code Refactoring2.8%
- AI in Coding1.9%
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