https://dominique.biesmans.com/tags/code-quality/ Recent content in Code Quality on Dominique Biesmans Hugo en-us Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dominique.biesmans.com/posts/quality-metrics-shift/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://dominique.biesmans.com/posts/quality-metrics-shift/ <h2 id="the-analogy-compilers">The Analogy: Compilers</h2> <p>I am almost (haha) old enough to have been exposed to handwritten assembly language, and when I played with compiler tech, I could see a big difference in the assembly code a compiler wrote versus hand-written and manually optimized assembly.</p> <p>The handwritten version was structured for human comprehension. Meaningful labels, comments explaining intent, code organized in a flow that tells a story, (re)using patterns that assembly developers know and recognize. A thing of beauty (really, handwritten assembly can be an art, especially in the world of very limited CPUs where each cycle matters, but I am deviating).</p>