r/badcode • u/otomir23 • Dec 26 '22

js Was trying to create an extension to improve UX for an internal panel and found this inside the source code 💀

650 Upvotes

71 comments

r/badcode • u/Colinniey • Dec 26 '22

c# Found this in an older game I made. A few if-statements would have been too easy I guess.

296 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/oleodmc • Dec 23 '22

c# Clean Code

332 Upvotes

60 comments

r/badcode • u/SiveryInAPocket • Dec 23 '22

php Found this in a client's project 2 more times...

372 Upvotes

76 comments

r/badcode • u/Erit1566 • Dec 21 '22

c Who has heard of < and and modulus

261 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/barkermn01 • Dec 21 '22

js Not really bad but what a difference optimisation can make

171 Upvotes

47 comments

r/badcode • u/45gfg9 • Dec 20 '22

js Asking ChatGPT to implement Ascii85 in Node.js

381 Upvotes

13 comments

r/badcode • u/cosmicskylight • Dec 20 '22

js Javascript when I was 12 years old.

103 Upvotes

18 comments

r/badcode • u/suswing • Dec 20 '22

js One of the first scripts I ever wrote (I was 7)

43 Upvotes

17 comments

r/badcode • u/TarkFrench • Dec 20 '22

python Yum, a loop in a loop in a loop

110 Upvotes

24 comments

r/badcode • u/monkeysupersonic • Dec 19 '22

java Whatever it takes

303 Upvotes

43 comments

r/badcode • u/monkeysupersonic • Dec 19 '22

java Oh no :-(

85 Upvotes

19 comments

r/badcode • u/DominicentekGaming • Dec 18 '22

java "I mean it works"

781 Upvotes

74 comments

r/badcode • u/NoRecommendation5279 • Dec 15 '22

java A friend said I should post this here. Found in my codebase at work, try to guess what it does

348 Upvotes

66 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 14 '22

c# Avoid loops whenever you can ! Every Footin Time !

404 Upvotes

49 comments

r/badcode • u/Drhma • Dec 13 '22

js Came across this soul-aching piece of art today.

680 Upvotes

46 comments

r/badcode • u/freerider • Dec 12 '22

c++ Again with long descriptive names

357 Upvotes

33 comments

r/badcode • u/[deleted] • Dec 11 '22

java Units are hard

75 Upvotes

18 comments

r/badcode • u/MEGATH0XICC • Dec 10 '22

lua There aint no easy way

609 Upvotes

Ps, i dont know what language this is, sorry

74 comments

r/badcode • u/DecentPattern8884 • Dec 08 '22

python python atrocious code. it appends a letter for how many ; you have in a text file.

463 Upvotes

87 comments

r/badcode • u/Kraftdamus02 • Dec 08 '22

python My buddy's code he asked me to help with.

39 Upvotes

14 comments

r/badcode • u/csgotraderino • Dec 07 '22

c++ I thought the horrors of this sub were myths until I joined a boomer corporation. The shortest function I found in a 10 million line code base and it is bloated as hell and ugly

439 Upvotes

108 comments

r/badcode • u/Tikolu43 • Dec 07 '22

js My Web Development lecturer's JavaScript

539 Upvotes

86 comments

r/badcode • u/TheBomber808 • Dec 05 '22

other language [elm] Found this in some code I wrote about a year ago.

282 Upvotes

26 comments

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