Providing higher quality code than necessary is an instance of the handicap principle in the software world. Basically, signaling you are skilled by doing your job in a more costly way. Examples: using strongly typed formal languages, extensive test coverage, hefty documentation
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Before someone trolls me: Yes, Rust can be good for some tasks (Mozilla created it for a reason), high test coverage makes sense sometimes (I just tweeted about it in fact), and documentation can be important. Still, many devs want these things more often than necessary
11:03 AM - 19 Apr 2018
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