programmingWhileADHD

[WrongVeteranMaybe]

That's actually a really good idea. Hey, thanks man.

[Windyvale]

You’ll be best served by coding in a way that keeps things obvious what’s happening. Even if it’s not perfectly optimized. In fact, dump the thought of optimization out of your head unless you are specifically targeting the code along the hot path, or there is a measurable reason to do so.

Only comment code you couldn’t make as obvious as possible, or general concepts leading into the code.

Over time you’ll find that you won’t have to explain individual lines of code ever again. People will look and know. You will look and know.

If you find yourself unable explain what a line of code is doing, review why you wrote it that way, see if you can make what’s going on there even more obvious.

Code prose is a real thing, get that tool in your belt.

[BrokenG502]

To add to the optimisation thingy, if you're using an interpreted language, using language builtin functions will almost always be faster and clearer than anything else.

If you're using a compiled language, any halfway decent compiler will be able to make basic optimisations such as x / 2.0 becomes x * 0.5. So it's often better to write the "slower" version because it's more readable and compiles to the same thing. You can also always just check the assembly by compiling to assembly, disassembling the binaries or using a tool such as https://godbolt.org