No fancy design patterns or algorithms.

This is like when liberals insist that an assessment is "unbiased" or "non-ideological". It's impossible. What they mean by "no design pattern" is "no design patterns I don't like".

Man software is hard. They're always saying stuff like "Lberry is a branch of the Fortnitely bootlickLoader made for asynchronous thread calls on the VersTop backend".

And then I open a plugin up and see completely uncommented code like

If x.getParent(struct.key(2).getIsPresent("present")) = 3.rad(y):
        buttLoader.load(buttSettings.buttSetting(new butt))

Else:
   x.setIsTrueIfFalse(true)

And their newest git update is how they're excited to be moving to Android while their documentation is 20% complete and their newest feature I actually like is a pull request from some 17 year-old in Nebraska using legacy code to do something in 3 lines I spent 10 hours figuring out how to make but better.

(And yes, the first if statement is an assignment because obviously someone modifying the code knows that the get method of x also assesses 3 arbitrary attributes and returns a bool)

No fancy design patterns or algorithms

Is such a red flag TBH, depending on how it's meant

Clean, simple code that is easy to understand and contribute to.

Given how ad-hoc the snippets of codes RedWizard and others have posted, I strongly suspect Pifed's code to be a horrible spaghetti mess.

Yeah, Python was a warning sign when I first heard of Piefed. I then decided I didn't want anything to do with it or instances running it when I learned that hexbear and lemmygrad blocks are hardcoded in the source code. This is also touched upon in more detail in the original thread where @RedWizard@hexbear.net posted the analysis.

This same person is saying it's so complicated because if the amount of lines of code so look at snippets is useless...

No fancy design patterns or algorithms.

I'm choosing to parse that as "No (fancy design patterns) or (algorithms)" rather than "no fancy (design patterns or algorithms)" because it's funnier to me.