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“The cult of understandable things”
Yeah ok bro, sure.
Who doesn’t like a gigantic shitty code that “just works” after all?
You have misunderstood. The is ranting against Clean Code, not clean code.
As someone who regularly has to deal with code that has been broken needlessly into smaller functions so that I have to constantly jump around to figure out what is going on, this really resonates with me.
The latest case was someone who took something that really only needed to be a single function and instead turned it into a class with a dozen tiny methods.
You see two functions that look similar. Clean Code sirens start blaring in your head. You extract a common abstraction. You add parameters to handle the slight differences. Then more parameters. Then a config object. Then a strategy pattern because you’re a Real Engineer™.
I’ve watched dozens of hours of Uncle Bob videos (not by choice) and this isn’t what he advocates. At all.
This author has no clue what they’re talking about.
So I was coming here with my pitchfork to blabber about how code is written for humans and that it’s important to be simple and clear and stuff… but then I realized this was a jab about that dumb book. Fuck that book.
This is an article by a person who doesn’t understand SOLID principles, talking about programmers who don’t understand SOLID principles.
