Code is the law

This post is in my drafts for a very long time. It expresses one of my opinion: everyone who produces code, is a lawmaker.📝 ✒️

For now, computers are dumb. Your code is the law for them. Even the whole computing world is built with code.

Your code may serve as critical infrastructure for other software systems; it may enable organizations to use computing world to solve their problem; it may enhance people’s lives. Whatever purpose it may serve, it should be crafted well by considering all the scenarios of the problem being solved and the other scenarios posed by the existing computing world in which it lives and interacts with.

For several reasons, necessary care should be taken while crafting the code. Some of them are: We need to produce software quickly to meet the ever increasing demand for software, we need to make sure it is not chaotic as it is produced by a team of people, and we need to make sure it is in a position to be amended as required.

But the heaviest question. How much of care is being careful? You’ll know, if you have constant urge to produce better code.

The title of this writing is inspired from one of the dialogues of The Brethren Court scene of Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End. Pirates of the Caribbean is one of my favorite movie series.