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by bionoid
2022 days ago
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> Nobody's speed-reading code. That doesn't make sense. Well, I speed-read code all the time.. it's a necessity in my role as independent consultant. Clients have a lot of half-baked/unfinished projects, and I'm called in to get it progressing. Speed-reading enables me to assess the state of the existing code and suggest a way to move forward, without breaking the bank up front. That said, for me column width is irrelevant for speed-reading. The typical time-killer is lacking separation of concerns and poor naming conventions (God classes, or worse, God files with 20 classes) |
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I skim code a lot. like A LOT. But I don't _read_ it. I try and figure out where I am by looking at context and clues and only drill down into the important looking tricky buts. It kinda sounds like we're on the same page here
> That said, for me column width is irrelevant for speed-reading. The typical time-killer is lacking separation of concerns and poor naming conventions (God classes, or worse, God files with 20 classes)
Exactly. Couldn't have said it better