Code Refactoring Culture

Noun · Hacker Culture

Definitions

  1. A team's shared attitude toward improving code structure without changing external behavior. Healthy code refactoring culture means cleanup is treated as normal engineering work, not a guilty indulgence squeezed between feature deadlines.

    In plain English: The culture around whether a team regularly improves code structure over time.

    Example: "Their code refactoring culture improved once pull requests could include cleanup as long as the scope stayed justified and well-tested."

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