benDo any of the developers out there have thoughts on how to avoid saying bad things about old developers due to annoyances in the old code? I always try to remember that you never know the circumstances that the old code was written under, but I am hoping for some more kind approaches :-). #php #WebDev
Tyler Martin@ben We're all still learning constantly and things could always be more optimal.
Hindsight is 20/20 and there is a ton of discovery work that happens while writing something that isn't obvious until after it's complete. Due to time constraints we can't always go back and fix every little "mistake" or inefficiency.
Keeping this in mind and having empathy towards yourself and other devs will go a long way. Sometime I look back at code I wrote a few months ago and wonder what I was thinking.