Nudel is dead. This is good. Let me explain.
Nudel is a great thing, it facilitated lots and lots of art.
Code needs to die when it is time, as has been said many times
before. It needs to make space for new code.
These are some indicators that it is time to delete:
- It is unimprovable: There is nothing left to do.
- Its very old
- Contributing is hard (code is completely unable to be understood
to new people)
- People got too attached to the code (we must delete before
it is too late)
- It became very unslippy
All of these were the case for nudel, so it was very much time.
People tried to recover it but pastagang is making sure that will
not happen again, hopefully. Something will come, and it might
not be the same, and it might or might not be as good, but it
will be new. And I'm excited!
On that note, I think we need to better define what we mean with
bad code only: It is good when the code is of low standards and
approachable, which is what we mean by "bad code only", but code
can be good while being bad in this way. "Good" can mean simple
or approachable too, or it can refer to the result. Something new
will almost always end up being better than the previous,
but there must not be an expectation for it to be that way, and
there must never be a thought such as "adding this would make it
worse so i wont do it" or "my code is too bad". No, your code
CANNOT be too bad. In fact it being bad is GOOD. Better can
also refer to the experience had when using what was coded, though
again this must not deter creation. You must write and you must
delete. You must create and you must destroy. You must destroy.
You must delete nudel.