My previous manager: "Your code should hard to read, so our work is cant stolen by everyone".
Me: "Why?"
My previous manager: "Just do it"
Me: "Okay"

So, anyone can answer my 'Why?' question?

P.S: My previous Manager is PHP Programmer

You work for Nike, right?!

@sunfishcc lol, i should edit that word. I love nike by the way.

Why? He's an idiot.
Simple as that.

Somebody told me the same saying that the company couldn't replace me then because nobody else understands my code.

I personally hate that attitude 😂

"My previous Manager is PHP Programmer"

That's the answer

I personally don't think your last sentence has anything to do with your question. But you personally think differently. 🤷‍♂️

To answer your question. Refer to Root.

@rutee07 I already did it, lol

Because he is used to PHP and all of that is impossible to read/not worth stealing ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@rutee07 one guy graduated from our university then got hired by Microsoft for F#.😑
Last time he came back for demonstrations on hololens.
My takeaway is: don’t underestimate these senior developers/ manager, they won’t switch to another job unless it’s a better one. 🤔

@pyaf yea i agree with you, php is not the reason. I just curious, in my opinion, make a code which is simple, understandable and maintainable is harder than 'hard to read' code. And this is not about pros/cons for php language, this is about mindset i guess.

Or just write clean code and obfuscate/minify whatever is public 🤷🏻‍♂️

This manager obviously does not know about code beautifiers

@DeWil this only works sometimes.

we used to use a service that had great involvement with the engineers. so anytime we needed anything, we had a slack channel with them. it was great. anyways, I got frustrated because one of the scripts that we needed to use was written in lisp, with hard coded values. but you almost never wanted those values, so you had to go in and change them, which if you're not a lisp programmer (or for some of my team, not devs at all) it's a real pain in the ass. I would always compalin to the engineers how terrible it was, and they would agree. he wrote it in lisp purely because he knew he was the only one who knew lisp. job security.

turns out that doesn't always work! they fired him anyways, and hired some poor bastard to convert it to python. never happened. it's still in lisp. and nobody understands it. but he was so unlikable, they fired him despite him being the only one who knows how the script works.

interesting