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All my younger colleagues have heard my catchphrase: Copy-paste is free; abstractions are expensive.
by fenomas 1y ago
All my younger colleagues have heard my catchphrase:
Copy-paste is free; abstractions are expensive.
- wilkystyle 1y agoOne of the many great takeaways from Sandi Metz's talk at Railsconf 2014: "Duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bZh5LMaSmE Worth watching in its entirety, but the quote is from ~13:59 in that video.
- drivers99 1y agoThe related blog post (I just found thanks to watching that and then searching for her site) is great too: https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction https://sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction It explains so much of what has been bothering me about what I work on at work, and now I understand why and some of what to do about it.