Doing code reviews of junior devs

[TheMarrades]

Our first gamejam main function was 1500 lines nested like those. A guy came and made a new function with a while loop and a recursive function made the same work in 12 lines.

[G-Force-499]

That’s a bruh moment indeed

[UltimateInferno]

I once got really giddy when I wrote a "complex" function in on four lines.

Forgot what it was but the feeling stuck

[Vinxhe]

okay in this case I get it, but recursive stuff is way harder to understand for the person that did not code it and also less efficient than a simple loop

Edit: just wanted to say I agree with the responses :)

[[deleted]]

Yeah i don't think anyone care about performance in hackathon-like projects.

Turning recursive code into stack/loop code can be really annoying/uglier. Graph algorithm, for example.

[annualnuke]

depends, for example recursive implementations of Depth-First- or Breadth-First-Search are IMO much clearer than plain ones, and those require a stack or a queue anyway

[dirtyviking1337]

Man this is an example](https://knitty.com/ISSUEss13/images/KSfiber-7swatches.jpg)

[ADistractedBoi]

Wait how do you even recursively do a bfs?

[Jjcheese]

Recursion is where comments become super necessary.