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Sonar is destroying my job and it's driving me to despair

First of all, I understand that Sonar is a well intentioned product. It’s right most of the time. Unfortunately coding is, of course, complex and it’s challenging for a product like Sonar to keep pace with the fast changing syntax of newer languages. I’m an experienced Developer and Team Lead, currently coding in Kotlin with Coroutines. I’ve also worked with Java, C++, C, Objective-C and Swift. We can all learn more, but I’ve been around the block and know a few things about what code qualit...

Please rethink your UX with the realisation that there are probably many professional and experienced software engineers out there who - far from appreciating your product, actually feel genuinely oppressed by it: like victims of a cold unfeeling system with no ‘right to reply’. Chris Hatton: Button to fast-access (lazily create) a community thread regarding a certain rule, to report a problem with it, so you know your difficulty is being heard at least by Sonar, if not within your organisation. So thanks to Sonarqube, I am going to have to make my code unreadable to a human in order to please management, which means INTENTIONALLY creating a mountain of technical debt.

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