Code Crusade

Noun · Slang & Abbreviations

Definitions

  1. A highly motivated campaign to clean up, standardize, or replace something in a codebase, often with a little too much righteous energy. In engineering slang, a code crusade may produce real improvements or burn goodwill by overreaching.

    In plain English: An intense campaign to reform or clean up code.

    Example: "What started as a small linting cleanup turned into a code crusade to rename every helper in the monorepo according to one new style guide."

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