[ludston]

If you're not used to the language, the conceptual models of the codebase you are working on, or you're working with obfuscated code. Otherwise it should be much faster to read and understand the code somebody else wrote than to write it from scratch?

[nine_k]

No, I mean, in general, including languages which I work with for 20-25 years. Reading code is still harder than writing.

[ludston]

I can certainly think of examples where reading code is harder than writing it, but given that much of my professional role has been dissecting the horrible code written by other people in order to figure out not only what it does, but also what it was supposed to do, I simply disagree. Reading code is just more boring than writing it.