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> But junior programmers or students reading dogmatic-like wise-sounding rules may produce worse code to strictly follow these kind of advices. Yes. I for one
by swsieber 3y ago
> But junior programmers or students reading dogmatic-like wise-sounding rules may produce worse code to strictly follow these kind of advices.
Yes.
I for one am happy such articles exist. Thus one articulated something I've run into quite a few times without being able to fully articulate the issues. It seems like a nice mental model to have in my back pocket.
That said, I appreciate comments like your because I hope the dogmatic junior dev comes across it and hopefully becomes a little more nuanced.
- matklad 3y agoThanks! You are exactly the target audience for this article! It really is only useful when: * you already have the intuitive understanding of problems being described * but you haven’t quite yet verbalized the problem and connected the dots This clicked for me yesterday, happy that it helped you to articulate what you’ve already knew today!
- Olreich 3y agoI’m close to giving up on dogmatic junior devs. They don’t ever seem to give up their dogma, even in the face of direct damage caused by their dogma. The closest I’ve seen is a dogmatic junior dev saying they understand and will relax on the dogma, but turning around and enforcing it when they think you aren’t looking. I’ve seen dogmatic junior devs turn into dogmatic senior devs, but I’ve never seen a dogmatic junior dev turn into a pragmatic senior dev.