https://www.advancingengineering.dev/tags/code-quality/Recent content in Code-Quality on Advancing EngineeringHugoenSat, 09 May 2026 16:04:11 +0100https://www.advancingengineering.dev/posts/2026-05-anti-patterns-one-language-inside-another/Fri, 08 May 2026 10:54:36 +0100https://www.advancingengineering.dev/posts/2026-05-anti-patterns-one-language-inside-another/<p>Placing one language inside another is one of those anti-patterns that seems harmless until you&rsquo;re trying to lint it, test it, or ask an LLM to reason about it. The moment you embed a language inside a string in another language, its entire toolchain disappears.</p> <blockquote> <p>We <strong>contain multitudes</strong>. Our code should be singular, not polyglot.</p> </blockquote>