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I find that convention over configuration often is trying to solve the wrong thing. It puts a tremendous burden on the user to know all of these conventions whe
by Touche 10y ago
I find that convention over configuration often is trying to solve the wrong thing. It puts a tremendous burden on the user to know all of these conventions when being simple and direct usually works just fine.
One example is an Ember RFC I read recently about the required folder structure of Ember projects. It wasn't clear to me at all why they were even doing this. Like, what were the gains? It turns out the entire point is some magic auto-discovery of things like Handlebars helpers.
- msimpson 10y agoYeah. Those sort of nuances can often be the hardest to discover and/or debug.