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Little development time vs perfect code?

by symbion on 8/27/12, 10:55 AM with 6 comments

I am sure I am not the only one to have this "issue".

I have created some small libraries for my side projects (mainly C++ lately) but I keep spending an awful lot amount of time trying to make it look good and take into account all corner cases while I should probably just be hacking away to get something working (i.e some kind of prototype).

How do you guys deal that ?

  • by tzaman on 8/27/12, 12:01 PM

    Hack away to get something working putting those libraries to good use. Code will be optimized throughout the process.

  • by lumberjack on 8/27/12, 11:42 AM

    I use a priority list for each project. A working implementation would be a high priority. Security bugs too. Optimizing code a bit lower and so on and so forth.