Questions tagged [source-code]
Source code is any collection of computer instructions (possibly with comments) written using some human-readable computer language, usually as text.
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Best thing to do by private developers in case of impending death or plans to cease development on a personal private project
Suppose I have a personal private code project. What should the developer do with the code in case of impending death or plans to cease development on their personal private project. Suppose, they do ...
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What is vertically coupled alignment in source code?
Formatting multiline statements is an arcane art that most auto formatters and style guides can't help you with. One habit I picked up is to ensure renaming things wont cause multiple lines to need to ...
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Number of lines of code executed per line of code: Are there significant differences per language? [closed]
Having fewer lines of code per feature is typically better as it increases the developer productivity. Did anyone ever measure the number of code lines executions per line of code across multiple ...
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How can I purge c++ source code?
Suppose there is a C++ source code base of millions of lines composed of several hundred *.cpp and *.h files. There is also a driver program main.cpp that uses several header files from the above ...
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Handling a Refactoring Project with Limited Access to Source Code
I recently finished an interview with a company as a web developer. I'm the first and only developer that is about to be hired in this company. They have a web application that was created by a ...
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Right using monorepo for ts-node scripts
I have a repository with various tools/scripts written with ts-node and used in many projects. Initially, it contained several automation/analytics scripts, one package.json file at the root, and one ...
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Fighting the half-life of code
I am building a small application that supports a research project. My goal is to make the code to be painlessly executable and readable on as many operating systems as long as possible. My reasoning ...
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Should docs of extended methods include documentation of the base method?
Let's say some method of a parent class is reimplemented in a child class. This child method is intended to do the same that the parent method, with a minor change. In this case, in the documentation ...
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Can answers of a test which is an exe file be viewed? [closed]
is it possible to view behind the scenes of an exe file once its executed? to find the answers of a test questions? For example if someone clicks on F12 on a website the code is viewable to the user, ...
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How to best present alternative ways to write a piece of code (in a slideshow)?
I'm working on a 'slideshow'-type presentation (e.g. using LO Impress) which involves me showing people different alternatives for writing some pieces of software code. We're not talking about large ...
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How to track temporary fixes
Whenever I do temporary fix I want it to really be temporary. However, there is no way to come back to it later, as the fix might be a part of a bigger issue. Let's imagine that we have for some ...
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Is there evidence that programming will die/not-die because of LowCode/NoCode? [closed]
I have to do a presentation of Convertigo, a LowCode/NoCode platform, for my IT class. I did a lot of research on it. What do developers think about a platform that permits to everyone to create an ...
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Why Java, C# and the like needs to be managed code
As far as I know the big argument for C#, Java and other high level languages having to be memory managed by a runtime environment is that the programmer does not take care of garbage collection or ...
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What counts as disclosing source for software licenses? [closed]
MPL v2, GPL v3 and other licenses alike require giving users access to source code. For desktop applications - does access have to be provided through the user interface (GUI)? Or can it just be ...
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How to setup our codebase for efficient code sharing and development?
Our situation At first, our company had 1 product. Custom hardware with firmware we wrote ourselves. Now more projects are starting to be added. Many can reuse most of the components of our first ...
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