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The original was posted on /r/opensource by /u/6marvil on 2025-09-08 00:01:34+00:00.
Hi all. I’m honestly a pretty bad developer, but I’d like to publish a decently sized FOSS project (~50k lines) on GitHub because as badly written as it is, I honestly think it could be quite helpful to a certain subset of people. I wouldn’t like to completely embarrass myself though — so I’d like to know, is it okay if my code is a little ugly? I’ve made it modular and maintainable to the best of my ability… but my ability is almost null.
Do most FOSS projects have beautiful code? Is it okay if some of my code is held up by duct tape and spaghetti?