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by nailer 3478 days ago
Quality of code is design [1]. Eg, copy pasting is not only a maintenance nightmare for other users of the code but also breaks Exupery's perfection principle.

[1] Not implying that interaction and appearance aren't also design, but rather that code and SCSS rules are designed too.
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collyw 3478 days ago
Yes, but I think what he is getting at is that no one other than devs gives a shit about code quality. Users do like a nice pretty looking interface.
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nailer 3478 days ago
Users also care if something works, and code quality is part of that - eg, imagine what hits users when the same bug is copy pasted into 100 slight variations of some code rather than a single instance.
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