Leaked FarCry Code Lesson

early-career people should take the time to download and look at the leaked farcry code. not to learn some new technical lessons, but to disabuse themselves of the notion of “clean code”.

A screenshot of a tweet advising early-career developers to download and inspect leaked Far Cry source code—not to learn technical lessons, but to abandon the idealized belief in “clean code.” The joke is that real-world production code is often messy, so seeing a major game's code can be a humbling reaction to overly tidy programming ideals. EN: A screenshot of a tweet advising early-career developers to download and inspect leaked Far Cry source code—not to learn technical lessons, but to abandon the idealized belief in “clean code.” The joke is that real-world production code is often messy, so seeing a major game's code can be a humbling reaction to overly tidy programming ideals.

• @gentoomemes / 5167 2023-07-03