• Marxism-Fennekinism@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Anyone can copy code. Making the copied code work well in your own codebase, and fixing it when it doesn’t, is what requires skill and experience.

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      When I was 8 I was making a “video game” (a complete bundle of code trash 😉) and I would copy people’s code and everything would melt down. I would spend hours debugging just to realize I needed to pass an extra argument or indent or something.

      Today I’m better at my job. I am now the one writing confusing function APIs 😈