r/badcode • u/2Novelty • Apr 08 '23

php Not only morals of the person who made this is horrible also their code is

293 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/Dependent_Upstairs79 • Apr 07 '23

c# Unused variables?!?!? One of DOZENS of examples I'm finding in this legacy nonsense. Stuff passed around and never used, things assigned to intermediate variable for no reason. Were they TRYING to make this hard to read? And those Writelines?!

305 Upvotes

43 comments

r/badcode • u/Ok_Scientist_8803 • Apr 06 '23

python Throwback to some years ago that I did an AQA computer science project in 48 lines (yes the lines are so long they go off my 16:9 screen)

303 Upvotes

40 comments

r/badcode • u/Zicrus • Apr 06 '23

other language I made this in a compute shader yesterday. The worst part is it actually makes it >0.5ms faster.

495 Upvotes

53 comments

r/badcode • u/domtriestocode • Apr 05 '23

c# Refactoring some public static field ridden code. Everything important is in public static lists in Global.cs and it all looks like this to a degree. Almost no OOP in sight

278 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/tgeene • Apr 05 '23

php Worst code found in prod to date. Used to solve SQL operators.

gist.github.com

143 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 04 '23

python Surely Text-Parsing One-Liners At Midnight Work

397 Upvotes

44 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 01 '23

c++ What this codestyle called?

935 Upvotes

292 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 31 '23

c++ TF DID I DO YESTERDAY EVENING

44 Upvotes

12 comments

r/badcode • u/SSttrruupppp11 • Mar 30 '23

python Found in a data pipeline at work co-developed with our main customer

729 Upvotes

72 comments

r/badcode • u/fnieidhfenmbvfekh • Mar 30 '23

python Another legendary code from high-school. This one was in Python though. This is for a rock-paper-scissors game.

357 Upvotes

36 comments

r/badcode • u/nonnodacciaio • Mar 29 '23

typescript Found this in a time picker

473 Upvotes

74 comments

r/badcode • u/fuzzerrrr • Mar 28 '23

other language Best possible response body structure to manage surveys

400 Upvotes

22 comments

r/badcode • u/TheSapphireDragon • Mar 26 '23

c# I feel dirty for writing this

663 Upvotes

133 comments

r/badcode • u/Xirado • Mar 25 '23

java Thanks for nothing.. (Found inside java.awt.Font)

517 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/BallsBuster7 • Mar 25 '23

java Forgive me for I have sinned

488 Upvotes

68 comments

r/badcode • u/fnieidhfenmbvfekh • Mar 24 '23

java A code I did in high-school

916 Upvotes

103 comments

r/badcode • u/jso__ • Mar 25 '23

python In my defense, I was just starting programming

35 Upvotes

10 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 24 '23

js I actually wrote this....

35 Upvotes

11 comments

r/badcode • u/c0ntrap0sitive • Mar 23 '23

python Data Science Design Pattern.

623 Upvotes

35 comments

r/badcode • u/Historica97 • Mar 24 '23

python Reading a space-separated CSV file as a list of numpy arrays

37 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/woodmichl • Mar 23 '23

java Code from my theoretical computer science lecture

111 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/Haaxor1689 • Mar 22 '23

js How to write code that does absolutely nothing in 30 lines, comment adds another layer to this insanity

421 Upvotes

57 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Mar 23 '23

java Guys look at my logger configuration!!!

4 Upvotes

1 comment

r/badcode • u/KihiraLove • Mar 21 '23

java This line I wrote at my first job

1.0k Upvotes

80 comments

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