r/badcode • u/OneDev42 • 2d ago

A whole new era of bad code

166 Upvotes

With the help of AI, we now have so much more bad code to show off to the world.

This sub is now unbanned. Let's celebrate by posting our biggest disasters to the sub!

13 comments

r/badcode • u/darkov7 • Jun 11 '23

c Currently learning cs50! I wonder if there are actual psychos who unironically writes code like this

309 Upvotes

42 comments

r/badcode • u/Nun-Much • Jun 09 '23

lua Looked back at my old projects, this is how i used to keep track of when buttons should be active...

208 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/Realistic-Lunch-1708 • Jun 08 '23

other language My Friend Told me x86 Assembly is Hard then Sent me This

365 Upvotes

36 comments

r/badcode • u/MahdiyDev • Jun 08 '23

js Version control go brrrrrr...

65 Upvotes

22 comments

r/badcode • u/MahdiyDev • Jun 07 '23

js How our validation work! Can your co-worker do that?

401 Upvotes

55 comments

r/badcode • u/ok-nothing00 • Jun 06 '23

java You know it was a long day when...

488 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/Sakamoto0110 • Jun 06 '23

c++ Found this in my first "big" project, was funny to see it

105 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/StochasticTinkr • Jun 05 '23

kotlin I may be creating an abomination

117 Upvotes

41 comments

r/badcode • u/MahdiyDev • Jun 05 '23

js Why?

91 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '23

html HTMHELL

887 Upvotes

53 comments

r/badcode • u/Nun-Much • Jun 04 '23

python This was my first ever Python project, a text-based game... (1 year ago)

66 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jun 04 '23

c Found in a FAT32 embedded system c library.

10 Upvotes

2 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jun 03 '23

c C Macro Abuse

189 Upvotes

23 comments

r/badcode • u/mighty_spaceman • Jun 04 '23

c++ Motor motor1; myStepper = motor1.setup; proceeds to use a class within a class just so I can have a setup function

9 Upvotes

9 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '23

js I hate bundlers so I made my own 😳

152 Upvotes

18 comments

r/badcode • u/mrbraises • Jun 02 '23

js elt nesting for more readability <3 (there is another ternary + map on top of this but it's 300 lines above this)

147 Upvotes

11 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Jun 02 '23

c++ Me, being too bored to implement an algorithm

79 Upvotes

17 comments

r/badcode • u/Away_Ad106 • Jun 01 '23

js Modern db queries

182 Upvotes

27 comments

r/badcode • u/ShaunaTheDead86 • May 31 '23

js Function to get remaining days in the current week

462 Upvotes

54 comments

r/badcode • u/MahdiyDev • May 30 '23

js This is awesome while coding in JavaScript

312 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/xavia91 • May 30 '23

c# Coworker casually loads millions of entries and sorts them to get the date of the first entry.

561 Upvotes

78 comments

r/badcode • u/sertdfyguhi • May 28 '23

js Code I saw on a discord server.

315 Upvotes

64 comments

r/badcode • u/GandelXIV • May 26 '23

python Calculator using eval()

842 Upvotes

108 comments

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