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by subliminalbrad 3969 days ago
Writing clean code is not an academic exercise. It means comprehending it takes longer, writing features takes longer, testing it takes longer. It makes every interaction with the codebase harder.

That might not be quite as bad in a proprietary codebase since you have somewhat more of a captive audience, but in an open source project where you want a long-tail of contributions from many people, that is a serious problem.