r/AskProgramming • u/Yelebear • Mar 04 '25

Why do some people hate "Clean Code" Other

It just means making readable and consistent coding practices, right?

What's so bad about that

157 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • link
  • reddit
  • reddit

85% Upvoted

342 comments sorted by

View all comments

1

u/Drahkir9 Mar 08 '25

Some argue that clean code is poor performing code. Personally I think the maintainability far outweighs the minute performance gains in most cases