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by tomelders 2564 days ago
Writing code is also UX. some future user will have to understand it. More often than not, that future user is you.
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Which is why: Verbosity is not bloat. Abbreviations are a code smell.

I remember encountering a platform in a language before namespacing was introduced in that language, and it had names for the classes like `Platform_Catalog_Model_Product_Simple_Collection`. It looked really silly, but I always knew what I was working with at a glance. It was honestly a really nice developer experience.