The vast majority of corporate-employed programmers write bad code. I think maybe 10% of the people I’ve come across have shown any interest or care in the quality of code they write.
replyThere will be a large majority of people who hold these opinions, because they weren’t capable of or didn’t care enough to write good code in the before times
The real problem with these conversations is that code quality isn’t something we have any kind of consensus on.
replyTo a lot of engineers code quality means upper-case C Clean Code. Other engineers are in the Grug brain camp where they think that premature abstraction is the worst kind of code.
But to your point I think the majority of engineers think they high quality code is anything that compiles or passes their (almost definitely insufficient) test suite.
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reply> arguing that code quality doesn't matter, and quality produced by humans in the past was often terrible
replyYou're conflating two different things. I'm one of the people arguing for the latter, but not because I don't think code quality matters but as a counter to to sudden idealization of handcrafted code.