Code Beauty
Noun · Hacker Culture
Definitions
The sense that code can have pleasing structure, clarity, balance, or elegance beyond mere functionality. In culture discussions, code beauty is usually subjective but still meaningful to teams that care about readability and craft.
In plain English: The aesthetic quality or elegance of code.
Example: "They disagreed about code beauty, but everyone agreed that the older version was harder to reason about under incident pressure."