#“I wasn't sure where to put this piece of code since I can't grok your code structure from looking at it and reading the comments” | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

transienturl · 1 year ago

Text

honestly? I think at this point the redpop code is straight up incomprehensible to me. there was a time I thought it was incomprehensible and then over time I thought I came to understand most of it. but we're going backwards at this point. there are so many layers of abstraction that I'm not even remotely able to follow it anymore. like there's a number of layers that I can see corresponding to expanded uses I could imagine for the components in question. but... sigh, I dunno. maybe I grew up on xkit rewritten and have been ruined for real codebases made by normal people forever now but like... you gotta factor that shit man idk.

#like even if redpop goes open source someday #the idea of contributing to it is not as appealing as it once was #I've written PRs for “abstracted to hell and back” codebases before #and they suck because most of the PR body is me going like #“I wasn't sure where to put this piece of code since I can't grok your code structure from looking at it and reading the comments”#“so you may as well do this? am I even saving you any time?”#I won't stop contributing to xkit but like #time to put in a totally random delay here since I can't find the piece of code it's supposed to deal with #to write something robust and efficient #tumblr meta #java'd script

0 notes