my understanding is that keep code modular, if it repeats 3 times then 'maybe' abstract it, and no matter what you do .. in time you'd have to rewrite from scra

my understanding is that keep code modular, if it repeats 3 times then 'maybe' abstract it, and no matter what you do .. in time you'd have to rewrite from scratch if not all but parts of it. there is no future proofing as there is no way to predict or time to put effort in predicting how business needs are going to change, how apis you talk are going to change, and how technologies you use are going to change. it's easier to just write simple functions, that you can come to later and see what they do quickly and change them. Only on going problem I do have is dependency, that I've to check every thing that used the said function, does it continue to work