Many major people in game dev are pretty high on this these days. Very easy to follow by simple visual inspection. It's funny to me that good programmers in game dev are going in two directions at the same time. For example, you might think that you don't need a class to encapsulate a 32-bit Color, youĬan easily just use a 4-byte array or pass around a dword and do the shifts by hand - but I have seen bug after bugįrom small mistakes in that kind of code, because if you write the same thing over and over, or copy-paste and try to changeĪ bunch of code by hand, there is some small chance of mistake each time you do it. I think good programmers overestimate their ability to write simple In fact wonderfully easy to integrate and steal snippets from),īut there are also bad things about it. There are a lot of things to like about that (for example, Sean's stb.h style thing for simple functionality is Much in this rant, and those are mainly the main reason to merge duplicate code I'm talking about cases where theĬode is not exactly duplicated, but is similar, or where you have a choice between making a very simple API which requiresĪ lot of typing by the client, or a more complex API which has very simple usage for the client).Ī lot of good programmers now are adopting the idea of exposing simple minimal C-style APIs that leave usage up to (I should emphasize the fact that reducing code duplication is very good for many reasons that I don't go into detail The less you type when writing a piece of code, the more likely it is to be correct.

For one thing there are typos, but there areĪlso just brain farts. Yes, yes, that is all true, but I think people miss the forest for the trees here in some cases.Įvery character you type is a chance for a bug or a mistake. Now people like to repeat the plathitudes that 'first draft is only 10% ofĭev time, debuggability and readability and maintainability are what really matter'. Sort of a reaction to the bad old days where developers put too much emphasis on reducing the time it took to These days that 'anything that just reduces typing is not of significant importance in programming'.

In the C++ rant we got a bit into the discussion of 'that just reduces typing'.

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