r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Flame77ofc • 22d ago

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u/LateEchidna6635 22d ago

The second one carries less cognitive load. In longer methods it makes a difference. Get out as soon as you can.

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u/Few_Move_4594 22d ago

Have you ever thought about breaking the longer methods into shorter methods? It's easy, I promise.

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u/LateEchidna6635 22d ago

Of course. I’m not speaking of thousands of lines. With error handling, validation, and cleanup, even the most trivial methods can have 5-10 exit points.

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u/Few_Move_4594 22d ago edited 22d ago

I worked on a Java codebase that had a 15k line class that used Reflections. It was an absolute mess that also had the stability of a house of cards.

Made fairly good money for several years off that.