I enjoyed this post about developers worrying about whether they are writing beautiful code or not.

As you would think, if you thought about it:

The article points out that nobody really cares what is going on behind the scenes.

Sad but true (understandable though): People care about the outcome.

Included are these two devastating examples to prove the point.

Absolutely crazy…

https://t.co/LXa46PyeHr is a single PHP file called "index.php" generating $101,101 this month. No frameworks. No libraries (except jQuery)💖

(SGD 123.4k=USD 92k) + (USD 9.5k in ads) https://t.co/jV1gZhyNOM pic.twitter.com/mOlMHvYQws

— @levelsio (@levelsio) April 12, 2021

Salesforce made $17 billion in 2020 revenue and is a single php file. No frameworks. No libraries.

— Jon Yongfook (@yongfook) April 15, 2021