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> The option to do non-clever code is seemingly insulting to the self-professed architect, but it is in my own experience at least, vastly more maintainable and productive, not because it results in "clean" code - it's usually pretty dirty and nothing to write home about, but because reading even a page-long flat procedural function that's just doing its thing, is much more straight-forward than ping-ponging between some clever architect's conglomeration of decaying design patterns. With all due respect, if you think you are talking about anything that I was attempting to describe, you are not. Everything that we do is based on simplicity and building the most simple things that we can. We may have different definitions of simplicity however. For mine, check out Rich Hickey's "Simple Made Easy" talk if you haven't seen it. We simplify things by de-complecting or, avoiding entanglement. Having separate repositories is just one way to re-enforce the simplification that we put in place with design. We call that structural design (because it's the design of the actual structure of the application). > on that note, it sounds like hmeh is trying to work around this problem with abstractions by doing a significant amount artificial partitioning. I can guarantee you that none of the partitioning is "artificial". I think at this point that you have projected so much of your experience into what I am saying that it's impossible for you to see anything I say in any other light. This, by the way, is what I mean by tacit knowledge. I say X, and you either hear Q, or you hear XIENRSTIENRSTIERNST, either way, you cannot possible understand what I am saying. This isn't a negative reflection on you, or a positive reflection on me. It's simply the way that tacit knowledge works, and it's why most "internet arguments" are wastes of time. > People promoting these things will of course then just blame it on the dev and call them average, or lacking in experience, because they can't identify and combine the various clever patterns correctly, they "are doing it wrong", and that's where I believe the above narcissistic tendencies I called out comes from. And yet, it is literally lack of experience (and ability) that prevents people from doing things they cannot yet do. That's how expertise works. Pointing that out is not narcissism. A gardener does not have the experience (or training) necessary to do brain surgery. This isn't a mark against the gardener. The difference in our industry is that it is filled with expert beginners. People who think that because they make 6-figure salaries after their limited education and experience they can now understand everything there is to understand about software design. This just isn't the case. If a person sees that as a slight to a fellow human, that says more about them than it does about the person pointing to that reality. |