Hacker News Reader

> The resulting code is cleaner, simpler, easier to maintain and more straightforward

I'd love to see the day when our profession invents and adopts objective metrics for attributes such as these so we don't have to rely on opinions.

I think the argument to be made here is that gathering such metrics is difficult. So that's why no one does it.

Should we/can we improve upon it is another question.

We have metrics such as cyclomatic complexity, however they don't connect with software engineers yet to drive decision making from my experience.

That’s a synthetic benchmark based on a theory about reading comprehension.

GP is talking about trying to measure reading comprehension to see which patterns actually work.