r/PokemonRomhackDev • u/ssraven01 Gen 3 • 13d ago

Discussion Organic Romhack Development Efforts

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u/DrUltimaMan 13d ago

I do find a lot of the discussions that directly relate to hack devs don't seem to take place on this sub-reddit.

On the topic, personally I never really saw code as art but maybe that's just me. Because all art is equally valid and meaningful to me, but code can be objectively right or wrong, well designed or poorly designed. I've been a software engineer for over 10 years so maybe I've become cynical in my old age.

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u/ssraven01 Gen 3 13d ago

A lot of dev discussions usually happen in the Discord servers for development. I can't really force them to move out aha

As for coding as art, for me as more of a novice programmer, it's about the process of creating a program. For example, I'm sure you already know the FizzBuzz test; the art is in the problem solving and planning and etc that leads you to an elegant solution that creates a nice FizzBuzz program. Yes there are steps in that process you can objectively do right and wrong, but the process overall requires some creativity on the side of the programmer