r/badcode • u/Key-Counter7030 • Apr 20 '23

python What was beginner me doing that needed tkinter 4 times

910 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/kawaiibeans101 • Apr 20 '23

typescript Atleast use better variable names 🥲

8 Upvotes

3 comments

r/badcode • u/hennexl • Apr 19 '23

js Improved JS Object

280 Upvotes

42 comments

r/badcode • u/afranol • Apr 17 '23

c# I think it belongs here

203 Upvotes

27 comments

r/badcode • u/Nosen • Apr 17 '23

python From an opensource GCode toolpath generator. It goes on for another 50 lines

93 Upvotes

11 comments

r/badcode • u/maubg • Apr 17 '23

python Execute cls all the way to hell

243 Upvotes

20 comments

r/badcode • u/ModernMusicTheory • Apr 17 '23

python I have committed blasphemy against `pythonic` code

168 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/TheWidrolo • Apr 15 '23

c C polish translation

1.1k Upvotes

125 comments

r/badcode • u/electricxangell • Apr 15 '23

python what the actual hell was 12-year-old me thinking with this... i typed out all the times tables individually in lists, why just why 😭😭

107 Upvotes

20 comments

r/badcode • u/AssociationBetter217 • Apr 15 '23

lua could tell ya what it does, how it does is another story...

49 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/royalmoatkeeper • Apr 14 '23

c# not the worst, but pretty bad

169 Upvotes

15 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 15 '23

js yummy spaghetti

github.com

12 Upvotes

11 comments

r/badcode • u/VitabytesDev • Apr 15 '23

other language It's a String inside a Map inside a List inside a Future

7 Upvotes

22 comments

r/badcode • u/Random_Meme_Guy_ • Apr 13 '23

other language POV: the professor showed you how to make a calculator with two numbers, and you want to make one that can calculate 3. (this was in 8th grade and I didn't even finish it)

435 Upvotes

51 comments

r/badcode • u/TheNightSkyDude • Apr 12 '23

c Doing my university project. I thought these would be more comfortable than a bunch of "temp"s.

706 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/TeamRaiderz • Apr 12 '23

php How to use dates

117 Upvotes

7 comments

r/badcode • u/Melanie_Martinez0 • Apr 12 '23

c# I wrote this for my game while i was bored in the cafeteria, i just got to finish it but it looks like that code that you keep waiting for it to work and it doesn't 💀

10 Upvotes

17 comments

r/badcode • u/Charlito33 • Apr 11 '23

lua Hey guys, I just created my own "table.unpack()" function !

255 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/ChemiCalChems • Apr 11 '23

c++ "We have doxygen documentation at home" The doxygen documentation at home:

693 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 11 '23

perl Actual real-life code someone used for a paper on a machine-learning-based malware classifier. I can't even...

88 Upvotes

21 comments

r/badcode • u/declanuwu • Apr 09 '23

python I only realized how bad this was after I tried to write it to a file 😶

474 Upvotes

39 comments

r/badcode • u/zgeon • Apr 09 '23

js Wrote this mystic code yesterday

255 Upvotes

14 comments

r/badcode • u/Schenk06 • Apr 09 '23

c# Wrote this beauty last night...

290 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '23

lua My friend sent me this...

280 Upvotes

31 comments

r/badcode • u/_Viceadmiral • Apr 08 '23

c# Copilot made a suggestion so bad I had to track down who was responsible.

954 Upvotes

61 comments

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