As engineers, it can be really satisfying for us to implement clever, terse solutions to problems, relying on advanced tricks and techniques. As a result, we often write code that is hostile and inaccessible to the junior folks on our team. This article makes the case that we should strive to write simple, accessible code, using the dumb old primitives that everyone knows.

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Project Euler is a repository of challenges based around advanced mathematics, meant to be solved with software. It takes a tremendous amount of skill to solve such a hard problem with such a small amount of code. In the context of a shared codebase, good code is simple code that doesn’t do anything fancy.

Clever Code Considered Harmful

Link to this heading Why is readability so important?

Link to this heading Bugs and code length

Link to this heading The cost of abstractions.

Link to this heading Inevitable complexity.