A few years ago, a lone programmer named t0st did something extraordinary: he fixed an 8-year-old bug in GTA Online that had been driving players crazy. The bug? Painfully long load times, sometimes u
That’s true of any large old piece of software, I sometimes read my own code written a few months ago that I’ve forgotten and need to spend time to understand what it’s doing, imagine reading someone elses code written years ago. Companies don’t incentive good documentation or comments, and rarely have I seen proper coding standards enforced, so you end up with a lot of spaghetti code, with 600 line methods that do too many things and there may or may not be proper unit testing that covers this code thoroughly
That’s true of any large old piece of software, I sometimes read my own code written a few months ago that I’ve forgotten and need to spend time to understand what it’s doing, imagine reading someone elses code written years ago. Companies don’t incentive good documentation or comments, and rarely have I seen proper coding standards enforced, so you end up with a lot of spaghetti code, with 600 line methods that do too many things and there may or may not be proper unit testing that covers this code thoroughly