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I disagree. Some amount of boilerplate is preferred versus abstracting everything. Boilerplate can be frustrating to write, and fiddly boilerplate absolutely sh
by xyzzy_plugh 4y ago
I disagree. Some amount of boilerplate is preferred versus abstracting everything. Boilerplate can be frustrating to write, and fiddly boilerplate absolutely should be abstracted, but in general it should makes the flow of logic easier to follow.
> At my day job, I spend more time thinking of better ways to do X, rather than writing boilerplate code :)
Not that you are suggesting otherwise, and I am being somewhat facetious, but oftentimes boilerplate is preferred to boiling the ocean.
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- jackson1442 4y agoA million times yes. If a codebase is magically adding _all_ of the boilerplate, it's almost always harder to understand what's actually happening.