What does it take to be a good programmer?
IMO good programmer writes code that:<p>1. Solves task.<p>2. Does that within a necessary performance constraints.<p>3. Uses commonly accepted approaches, libraries, style, does not reinvent things which are not necessary to reinvent.<p>4. Readable by programmers who&#x27;ll work with that code in the future. That could be juniors or seniors, that depends on a particular company and project.<p>5. Extendable for changes which are likely to happen in the future.<p>6. Not extendable for changes which are not likely to happen in the future.<p>Every item is necessary and going down this list requires more skill and more humility. It&#x27;s easy to write complicated code. It&#x27;s hard to write simple code which is as good as complicated where it matters.<p>That&#x27;s what my opinion is and that&#x27;s what I strive to.<p>That said, I might be completely wrong about it, as I see great churn with modern software, things are being rewritten over and over again. Code maintainability seems not to matter as much as it mattered in the past. May be that&#x27;s my bubble. Sometimes I think that the good programmer is one who can spew JavaScript nonsense faster than his peers can review it, because who cares, that stuff is going to be rewritten tomorrow with revolutionary new age framework.