✅ What's your view on tool like Sonarqube?
Should I learn from the code smells it captures?
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like it telling me about reducing "Cyclic Complexity"
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so I become better?
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right
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code smell is subjective, right?
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like it telling me about reducing "Cyclic Complexity"
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You use it?
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I think should I get a sonarqube linter
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so you will use it?
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I thought there might be there
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sorry it's sonarlint
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i think metrics like cyclic complexity can be useful hints but they're inherently prone to false-positives
sometimes you have a good, maintainable function that's complex to computers but not humans
switch cases kill cyclic complexity but are usually ok to understand for humans. though they have other problems
i think using tools like that is good for highlighting specific code problems (use this language feature instead of that one, etc.)
but for broad metrics stuff just use them as a general guideline for areas that need attention, don't take them religiously
I fell into the trap of listening to SonarQube suggestions/reports
In the end, became way less productive and code quality didn't improve at all because I tried to make arbitrary metrics happy
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So you can def. look at what it says, it might has some merit to stuff. But take it with a pinch of salt, don't handle it as an oracle
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Cognitive complexity is also a useful measurement as well, that I think they came up with
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