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by true_religion 3436 days ago
> They don't understand that unclear code is probably the number one cause of technical debt. Nobody wants to waste time trying to understand it so they start to attach workarounds and it just keeps getting worse.

True, but once get into the length of variable names in iOS and Android development, you're in a whole new territory. 38 character variables have no place in life.

And extreme's like:

outputImageProviderFromBufferWithPixelFormat:pixelsWide:pixelsHigh:baseAddress:bytesPerRow:releaseCallback:releaseContext:colorSpace:shouldColorMatch

This is 149 character.

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The thing is that, shorter names do not help in this case either...