PSA: I was coding for 6 months before a senior dev at a meetup pointed out I was nesting if statements 5 levels deep

He showed me how to flip the logic with early returns and suddenly my 200-line function turned into 50 lines, has anyone else had a senior dev completely rewire how you think about code structure at a meetup?

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the_xena2d ago

My mate had a senior dev rewrite his whole approach in one 10 minute chat.

the_miles1d ago

That "flip the logic" trick single-handedly cleaned up my code overnight.