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Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer. Some amount of boilerplate probably needs to exist, but in general it wou
by jampekka 1y ago
Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer.
Some amount of boilerplate probably needs to exist, but in general it would be better off minimized. For a decade or so there's sadly been a trend of deliberately increasing it.
- kazinator 1y agoRather, it is boilerplate that replicates hammers along with nails.
- coldtea 1y ago>Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer It's rather saying that we should have parts that join without nailing by now, especially for things we do again and again and again and again.
- jama211 1y agoDid you read shouldn’t when they wrote should?
- jama211 1y agoI didn’t say it should exist, only implied it’s a practical inevitability for the moment.