It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)
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HN comment orderMy experience is that I run into a lot of relatively junior programmers who are concerned about clean code. Is my code clean? How do I organize my code? How do I make it clean? Should we clean up this code? I almost never want to use the word “clean” when I’m talking about code. These days, when someone asks me to review code, and they start talking about “clean” code, I shift the discussion to two points—code should be…
Good article. But discussed with 800+ comments five months ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27276706
To be entirely honest, most of his books are pretty awful, as they are mostly preaching something for the sake of preaching and selling the books. I bought his last one (Clean Architecture) as I wanted to improve myself as an architect, just to realize its riddled with fluff and rarely anything in there is actionable advice. For some reason the reviews from his followers are mostly glowing. I also found myself agreeing with everything written in this blog post…
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Every submission
| Date | Title as submitted | By | Points | Comments |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-06-28 | It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code | mumphster | 69 | 8 |
| 2021-11-12 | It's probably time to stop recommending Clean CodeFirst breakout | azth | 120 | 88 |
| 2023-02-18 | It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020)Best thread · Latest 20+ point return | flykespice | 202 | 210 |
| 2024-08-02 | It's time to stop recommending Clean Code (2020) | fanf2 | 3 | 0 |
| 2025-02-25 | It's probably time to stop recommending Clean Code | avinassh | 7 | 0 |