Ask HN: What studies do you want to see done on programming styles?

by Voklenon 2/12/2023, 3:41 PMwith 1 comments

Seeing whether tiny functions increase productivity or medium sized functions with comment headers would be my one. It would be very interesting to see how this relates especially to issues closed and new features added as opposed to "Code Quality" and number of lines.

A lot of styles are opinions without large scale real data behind it, so if you could run a large study what would you want to find out?

by rubicon33on 2/12/2023, 4:30 PM

Functional vs imperative

Which is easier to understand and maintain at scale?