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You know what's not given enough credit? The fact that those so-called "patterns" are really just trendy ideas pretending to be "knowledge". It's like fashion -

You know what's not given enough credit? The fact that those so-called "patterns" are really just trendy ideas pretending to be "knowledge". It's like fashion - it goes in and out of style. Now we have all these blog posts saying "DRY considered harmful", but back in the day, everyone was all about "DRY considered good". It's just a trendy thing, man. And all this backlash against it? Yup, you guessed it - it's just another trend (because it's not cool to follow the rules anymore). To be real, most of those ideas probably have some truth to them, but like always, it's about weighing the pros and cons. It's all about those tradeoffs.

esailija 4y ago
There is a lot of truth to DRY but it has been distorted by becoming completely obsessed with it as if it was some end to reach, rather than any other property with its own tradeoffs. And its not just developers, but even some companies are also obsessed with removing "waste" by sacrificing everything just to minimize any kind of seemingly duplicated effort without ever considering if it's actually cheaper to do so.. When DRY is shown as high ideal somewhere, how often do they also mention the tradeoffs like tight coupling and premature abstraction?