On: Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lin...

[marcus_holmes]

this. Our job is to write profitable code. Not beautiful code.

There's a balance; too much tech debt and the code isn't profitable. But too little tech debt is not profitable either.

[kayamon → marcus_holmes]

That’s not your job, that’s just how you choose to live your life. You reject beauty.

[xboxnolifes → kayamon]

When you program as an art form, you get the salary of an artist.

[caffeine → kayamon]

Appreciate your point but this is a false dichotomy - (to me, at least) there's beauty in function. In fact, it's sort of the only non-subjective aesthetic.

Code like the Linux kernel isn't necessarily all beautiful in terms of overwrought abstractions, but I find quite beautiful the accretion of small changes and thought over time that has made it suited to task.