Please use your thesaurus and enlighten me to how then I say “this code is garbage” in a nice way, while clearly communicating the full meaning of:
- this code is bad
- you should reassess your skills and values
that lead you to believe this was good
- your worldview may be flawed, look into that
- don’t do this again
- you should probably feel bad too, to attach
emotion to strengthen your memories of this
to make this a learning experience
Do you not understand the emotional cruelty of trying to say all 6 things at once to someone who (in theory) is actually trying to contribute?
Maybe someone is not trying. Maybe you're wasting your breath then. Maybe someone is trying, but has an incomplete world view. Ok great, now you've pissed them off instead of saying what's wrong.
Just say what's wrong with the code! That's what actually matters. Not that you think it's garbage.
