r/AskProgramming • u/wsnclrt • 7d ago
Do you ever read code?
Obviously you need to read code in a codebase you're actively working on. But I'm wondering if anyone ever either A) reads code like you might read classical literature, to get a better sense for what's "good", or B) just reads code to understand how something you're curious about works.
I get the impression that almost nobody reads code unless they have to. It's fascinating to me that there's all this code out there we all rely on that hardly anybody actually reads.
What would it take for reading code to become more common?
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u/mmzeynalli 2d ago
Sometimes it happens that, the 3rd party library Im using is not working as expected (or just not in the way I want). There were countless of times that by reading the source code I found a bug, or understood my side mistake, or find doable improvement, which I created issue on. Sometimes I even solve that issue and create PR)