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by Falkon1313 1119 days ago
Yes, it's just the new style of spaghetti, this time with lipstick and a bow tie.

One notable difference is that now the GOTOs are implicit and only in your head, so it's notably even harder to comprehend than the old style of spaghetti.

Also often adds in some code hidden in comments ('annotations'), some squirreled away in complex configuration files, and some other code where what actually gets executed depends on concatenated string variables, and maybe for good measure some places where which code gets executed (and how) implicitly depends on the filepath it is under, and now we have a mess even a debugger can't help with.

It's nice to see more people finally getting disillusioned with these trends.