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Tashinga

As long as it works... it's fine.

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Adam Crockett πŸŒ€

As long as a questionable bit of code has decent tests I'd let it in the codebase.

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Daniel Brady • Edited

What context do you have in mind?

I think "it's fine if it works" makes sense for rapid prototyping, proof-of-concepts, and other "throw-away" code, but when it comes to code that will be shipped and therefore maintained, I lean towards "good enough to work is not good enough to ship."

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Christian Bewernitz

Fully agree, since the statement without context could also be applied to social injustice that just works for most people.

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Tashinga

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Tashinga

True, though I meant more for personal growth etc... and not business needs because there always seems to be a pressure to do better or write less with "more advanced" languages. A carousel is a carousel regardless of what tech was used and how it was hacked together and I think that you should be proud regardless. I'm probably wrong though...

Good to see developers and the like still being practical as ever though πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚πŸ˜‚