Quality code is the easiest to delete

<p>Isaac's piece, <a href="https://stackoverflow.blog/2021/10/18/code-quality-a-concern-for-businesses-bottom-lines-and-empathetic-programmers/"><strong>Code quality: a concern for businesses, bottom lines, and empathetic programmers</strong></a>, ran recently on the Stack Overflow blog. </p><p>A simple metric for code quality code be how easy is it to delete any given piece of code. </p><p>There's no algorithmic way to judge quality code, but experienced engineers know it when they see it. </p><p>Jeff Atwood's <a href="https://blog.codinghorror.com/performance-is-a-feature/">Performance is a Feature</a> blog post gets a lot of mileage with our writers. But code quality isn't on the same axis; it's not a feature you can prioritize. It's part of the development process. </p>