alt Hacker News>it will improve the quality of the code
That does not mean the product becomes more useful. I could rewrite Windows 1-to-1 with better code quality and no one would care because it still provides the exact same features. Unless "better code" means "better features", better code is useless.
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cstever • today at 12:13 PM
Better code allows you to write new features with less risk to disrupting your current features.
Software design and architecture is about creating a system that can be built well, run well, and modify well.
If you just throw things together without thought you get an unmaintainable mess.
This is extremely short-sighted. Software is not a static product. "Improve code quality" translates into being able to add features more quickly and with less risk of bugs. For an open-source project, this also gives readers the opportunity to understand the codebase and learn from it.