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by philosopher1234 1951 days ago
I don’t think that example tells the whole story. You have to zoom out and consider what code based look like when this trade off is made repeatedly by devs. When “easyness” or DRYness becomes king you get ravioli code, and it becomes unintelligible. Keep it simple
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My persistent impression of the Ruby ecosystem is that everyone optimizes for clever one-liners so hard that all other priorities go out the window.