Jason GormanWe spend roughly 10x as much time reading code as we do writing it. A tool or technique that makes you twice as "productive" at writing code *at best* makes you 5% more productive over all. Making your code easier to understand will have 10x the impact. But that doesn't sell tools or put developers out of work, so you won't be reading about it in Forbes.
Frank Quednau@jasongorman that it doesn’t sell tools I’m not so sure. A tool that would help me ensure readable code, however that would work, I would find a very interesting proposition
Noah Gibbs@flq @jasongorman There are attempts. Rubocop thinks it does that, for instance.
I haven't found them to be very useful, but my opinion is far from universal.