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Architecture is why we refactor. Just build your vision - especially when you're stretching with unfamiliar tools and languages. Then go back and pay off your

• Confusion 16y ago
  Architecture is why we refactor I sincerely disagree with this point of view. To me, 'architecture' consist of exactly all those aspects of an application that you can not change by a mere refactoring. There are parts of an application's design that are much harder to change, after the fact, than others. If you've built your Japanese pagoda from wood and rice-paper and you decide afterwards you're really going to need a concrete foundation and some central steel columns to tie your pagoda to it, you're basically going to have to rebuild it.