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by jarek83 1616 days ago
If you work on your own, that's probably not a disaster to write shitty code. BUt in a team it's a big no for me. And it's not really about the future extension of code, although modular approach generally helps here too. The biggest benefit of non-shitty code is that others can get through it quicker. In 99% of cases code is written to be read by others in the first place (including yourself after some time), then goes the bug-less priority and then anything else. 1% is where you really need something to be performant - the ease of reading is then not important at all as such code has to be messy.