Rethinking Readability

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There have been a lot of articles and books written about readability (I know, I wrote the chapter in Clean Code about naming). I think it’s time to update our understanding of code readability, and maybe help forge a path forward from here. We say ‘readable’ as a shorthand for “easy to quickly and correctly understand” relative to other ways of expressing the idea in code. It seems safer, smarter, and faster to co-create code, but that doesn’t mean people can’t possibly make it work any other way… eventually. There are other virtues other than clarity, and I invite you to consider writing code that is Working, Unique, Simple, Easy, Developed, and Concise as well.

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