Code Hot Takes

What's your coding hot take?

I'll go first:

Readability is more important than efficiency when writing code.

i.e. Well written code can be picked up and understood by most software developers/engineers and does not require a lot of parsing or jargon understanding.

Comments

[Ben Halpern]

The code you're staring at can't be evaluated out of context of the whole system.

[Jon Randy 🎖️]

A dogmatic obsession with 'readability' and 'clean code' (both subjective) can - over time - lower the quality / ability of upcoming developers.

[Ndeye Fatou Diop]

React memoization is not evil.

[Mordechai Dror]

JSX is the template engine for NodeJS MPAs

[Michael Stamps]

Jquery is not dead. In fact, over twenty percent of devs use Jquery, and about eighty percent of websites still use Jquery.