Ask HN: What's the one thing that let you grow the most as a developer?
What improved my coding a lot was simply taking responsibility of projects from start to deployment and beyond. Seeing the future damage of all your shortcuts or entangling yourself in pretty patterns for no good at all really is sobering.<p>You need to go through at least three Design-Ship-Support cycles of the same product to really appreciate what good coding practices are.<p>If you&#x27;re like one-of-many in a project and never really have responsibility for anything I would strongly recommend some external work where you are in total command of everything. I was stuck in a position without that for too long.<p>------------<p>By the way: you say you <i>just</i> know C. But how many developers out there feel bad about their skills because they don&#x27;t have C skills? C is the beginning of everything, everything is built on top of it.