Facebook’s code quality problem (2015)
I read Richard Gabriel&#x27;s &quot;Worse Is Better&quot; essay in my first month hired as a professional programmer, that was almost 12 years ago. Since that time the lessons of that essay have only increased in significance for me, with this FB story as additional proof.<p>Their back-end code might be bollocks, and I can certainly believe that judging by how sluggish their FB app feels on my phone, but the fact is that they&#x27;ve conquered the Internet (together with Google and a couple of other companies). It&#x27;s a fact that I personally hate, but they&#x27;re still winners in the end.