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by naasking 755 days ago
> Is that true for an average developer, really? Yes, we read lots of manuals, snippets, stackoverflows. But code? One does mostly write code.

No, every developer almost certainly reads a lot more code than they write. You can't modify code to add a feature without reading and understanding the code first. The code you add is often very short compared to the code you need to read to understand what to modify.