Code Church
Noun · Slang & Abbreviations
Definitions
A joking term for a team or community that treats a framework, pattern, or coding style with near-religious devotion. In engineering slang, code church implies dogma has started to replace practical tradeoff thinking.
In plain English: A team or culture that treats coding preferences like unquestionable doctrine.
Example: "The discussion felt like code church once disagreeing with the preferred pattern was treated as a moral failure instead of an engineering choice."