Hacker News with Generative AI: Code Readability

What makes code hard to read: Visual patterns of complexity (2023) (seeinglogic.com)
Not long ago, I was auditing a codebase for work (looking for bugs) when I realized that despite the quality of the code, I was becoming mentally fatigued extremely quickly and had a hard time working on it for long stretches of time…
Code Readability, Software Development, Human Factors, Cognitive Science
414 points by homarp 23 days ago | 370 comments
Self-Documenting Code (lackofimagination.org)
Think back to the last time you looked at an unfamiliar block of code. Did you immediately understand what it was doing? If not, you’re not alone – many software developers, including myself, find it challenging to grasp unfamiliar code quickly.
Software Development, Code Readability, Programming Practices
72 points by tie-in 162 days ago | 126 comments