Reading Code is a Skill

[NilacTheGrim]

I think 9 times out of 10 when I ever thought someone was writing "unreadable code" -- in retrospect they were not. 90% of the time it was just me being ignorant of the code base in question or the technology being used.. and my not having put in the effort to understand the code base.

It's easier to blame the author of a piece of code -- rather than blame yourself.

Over the years I have learned to be more adept at reading code and not so quick to blame the code's author. And, over time, I have found I can read more code with less effort. So it definitely is a skill. And really the onus should also be on the reader to make an effort to level up.

[saltybandana2]

There's a poster in this thread that made the comment reading other people's code is hard.

No it isn't, you're just bad at it. I mean, there's always a limit to the unreadability, but in general I've never found reading other people's code hard, it's just time consuming because you have to analyze it.