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I struggle to think of any time when consistency would not make you better at shipping something useful A codebase with consistent styles and patterns is easie
by bluefirebrand 3y ago
I struggle to think of any time when consistency would not make you better at shipping something useful
A codebase with consistent styles and patterns is easier to work on than a chaotic codebase, it would definitely make you better at shipping
And so on
- eddd-ddde 3y agoThis was my line of thinking when making the comment. Obviously there has to be some balance, but in general I'm a fan of consistency, even if I'm not a big fan of the things we are being consistent on.
- bluefirebrand 3y agoI think the problem with cargo culting isn't usually the stuff the cargo cult preaches It's the constant churn of dropping the current thing for the new cargo cult whenever it comes along. Cargo culting destroys consistency by constantly seeking the next new hotness
- dolni 3y agoWhat if everything were written in C? Or Python? Or Java? We'd have massive consistency across the software industry and yet that would be an absolutely terrible idea.
- TehShrike 3y agoI've seen codebases that were consistent in e.g. copy/pasting a meaningless comment into the top of every file. This did not make the team better at shipping something useful. Consistency is bullshit if it doesn't help you ship something that people care about.