Make Code Great Again

There’s very little code that’s completely independent of other code. A simple “hello world” in your favorite language relies on the code powering your language. As your objective gets more complex, you start relying on more and more code to get things done. Your code depends on other code, which depends on other code, which … you get the idea.

An unfortunate side-effect of code dependency is yours inherits the flaws of other code it relies on. As a result, your code sucks because the code it relies on sucks.

Instead of getting on a soapbox about poor code, since we’ve written and released our fair share of it, lets focus on how you can make code great again.

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