I share this acknowledging I used to run clean code books clubs for a few years.

If Bob and his ideas are part of your personal canon this is a great explainer as to why you should take them out. https://twitter.com/WAptekar/status/1305555571320467457">https://twitter.com/WAptekar/...

The intellectual framework behind clean code now feels to me like it& #39;s got a core contradiction in it - a weird kind of coding authoritarian libertarianism where all software quality comes from personal responsibility but without personal freedom.

I think there& #39;s virtue in having a degree of conformity of coding style with a certain group scope, but no need to pretend there& #39;s some deeper underlying intrinsic value in what the style is

I guess I just hate matters of taste dressed up as matters of fact.

As the "facts" of clean code didn& #39;t hold up it became clearer to me that it& #39;s a political expression in a coding style, which would be fine if it didn& #39;t lie about it.

I still wouldn& #39;t like the politics tho.

then learning the harms he has done hastened my exit.

Even though I love to outsource the definition of a particular coding style and they seem to be pretty arbitrary personal expressions, why not choose one that doesn& #39;t send credibility back upstream to an asshole