I’ve been writing software for many years. And I’ve realized lately that the more I engaged with (wrote in, integrated with, etc.) open source technologies, the better the code I write gets. Which got me wondering: correlation or causation?
Reading Code Makes You Better
I learned early on in my programming career that the more code I read, the better my code became. I learned that when I had to maintain other people’s code, simple and clean almost always beat fancy or complex code – even if there were comments. On the other hand, when I took enough time to understand the complex code, I usually learned new tricks. Either way, I improved. This led me to push for code reviews in shops where we weren’t doing them.
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