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Stop nesting ternaries in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
submitted 1 year ago by philnash to c/javascript
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've been a software developer for 7 years and I've grown to hate terneries entirely. They only hinder readability. Readability is the biggest factor in maintainability. Code that is hard to maintain makes bugs.

I always mark PRs with nested terneries as "needs work".