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Dark Side of Writing Technical Stories in Medium
Preparing yourself to face responses from Medium members
I came across this article a few days ago.
The title piqued my interest, because the proposed idea contradicts what I usually do in my code. I would use continue and break inside a loop or a return inside a function instead of adding explicit else.
I find myself clicking the story to find out if I’m missing something by using implicit else.
Reading through the article, I was unconvinced by the arguments. However, I appreciate the writing style and the effort of the writer writing down their reasoning along with code samples. So, I clapped the story.
Then I saw the number of responses, more than 100.
“Wow, this must be a very interesting topic, my best performing story has similar claps but way fewer responses. Let’s see what people are saying.” — my brain.
