It Scares The Hell Out Of Me

arrays Technical debt Legacy code Code maintenance Bad practices Programming horror Undocumented code Code smell Global variables

Debugging Javascript Programming Testing

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It Scares The Hell Out Of Me

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The toughest developers who fearlessly debug production issues at 3 AM suddenly turn into trembling wrecks when faced with a global array full of zeros. Nothing strikes terror into a programmer's heart quite like stumbling upon someone else's undocumented global variables. Those zeros aren't just empty values—they're empty promises. Whatever story that code was supposed to tell has been wiped clean, leaving only the haunting structure behind. It's like finding a murder scene where the killer meticulously cleaned up all the evidence except for the chalk outline.

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They really grow up fast.

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