David Farley’s new book is good. It advocates for the tenants of “clean code” (at least in all lowercase), but given his background I trust that he knows how to

David Farley’s new book is good. It advocates for the tenants of “clean code” (at least in all lowercase), but given his background I trust that he knows how to balance performance and code hygiene. There are people that are wrong on both extremes, obviously. I’ve worked with one too many people that quite clearly have a deficient understanding of software patterns and try to pass it off as being contrarian speed freaks. Just as I’ve worked with architecture astronauts. I’m particularly skeptical of YouTubers that fall so strongly on this side of the argument because there’s a glut of “educators” out there that haven’t done anything more than self-guided toy projects or work on startups whose codebase doesn’t need to last more than a few years. Not to say that this guy falls into those two buckets. I honestly don’t think I know him at all, and I’m bad with names. So I’m totally prepared for someone to come in and throw his credentials in my face. I can only have so much professional respect for someone that is this…dramatic about something though.