You Never Know Who’s Going to Look at Your Code
In a post from the The Chromium Blog, the Google Chrome developers discussed how they decided to use webkit as their rendering engine.
WebKit became the obvious solution after talking to fellow engineers working on the Android project. They were already using WebKit (as it is a great option for mobile devices), and they trumpeted its speed, flexibility and simplicity. We routinely heard comments like “It’s so easy to hack!” and “It didn’t take me long to find my way around the code base.”
This goes to show that making well organized, beautiful code can not only reduce future and current development time, but it can also have many pleasant unexpected side effects. Who knows who might be looking at your source code in the future- potential buyers of your project, new talented team members that may otherwise choose to work elsewhere, or even your clients. Having good clean source is always a good idea, and you never know what all may come of it.