The Daily WTF

There’s always a hope that in the future, our code will be better. Eventually, we won’t be dealing with piles of krufty legacy code and unprepared programmers and business users who don’t understand how clicking works. It’s 2020: we officially live in the future. Things aren’t better.

Duane works in Go, and has a piping hot “Representative Line” written in 2020. If, like me, you don’t quite know Go, it still looks pretty terrible at first glance:

db.Raw(“update backlog set id = ? where id = ?;”, job_id, job_id).Row()

The SQL query is… a head scratcher, for sure. id is the primary key in this case, and as a general rule, updating the primary key in a relational database is not a good idea: it is the identity of the record, and if it’s used in relationships you can have weird cascading failures. But it’s okay in this

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