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Against Best Practices
best practices Written on 16 Nov 2024 I have come to believe that by and large “best practices” are doing more harm than good. Not necessarily because they’re bad advice as such, but because they’re mostly pounded by either 1) various types of zealots, idiots, and assholes who abuse these kind of “best practices” as an argument from authority, or 2) inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge the applicability, Everyone else just says “X is better because Y”.
Not necessarily because they’re bad advice as such, but because they’re mostly pounded by either 1) various types of zealots, idiots, and assholes who abuse these kind of “best practices” as an argument from authority, or 2) inexperienced programmers who lack the ability to judge the applicability, While the basic ideas of “SOLID” are okay, I generally find that strong adherence does not lead to particularly good code. There is kind of a gaslighting effect here, because it’s very natural to assume that maybe you should be following the “best practice”, especially when declared with great arrogance.
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