[jesseryoung]

As nearly every poster in this thread mentioned, this headline is click-bait. I don't blame the author actually, this is very targeted click-bait (OO programmers) and I took the bait and actually enjoyed the read.

The criticism of SRP hits home for me - I try and write SOLID code when I can and SRP is challenging to follow. I struggle jumping between "Does this really fit SRP?" and "I can probably justify SRP here." I usually settle on the author's "Fits my head" and justify that when doing code reviews with my co-workers.

The author's comments on OCP don't accurately reflect my experience with the field of modern software development. I've worked on many projects (even green-field projects in the last 3 years) that have been very expensive and risky to change, where work absolutely needed to be additive because you couldn't trust refactoring tools to handle everything that needed to be changed.

[ssijak]

Let me guess, they were Python or Ruby projects?