Software: Reading vs. Writing

Reading has never been harder. Photo by Raj Eiamworakul on Unsplash

Developers love writing code. Our schools, tutorials, and side-projects teach us how to start projects and write new code in a new codebase. When a developer comes out of school, they know how to write new code. Great.

Writing code is not the same as reading code. Whether you are dealing with your code from last semester or someone else’s code from 2 years ago, regardless of the quality of the code, it is…