• oldfart@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    If the chef wants 15 toppings, then you start abstracting it. There’s no point in overengineering.

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      1 year ago

      Might as well start with a solid foundation from the start though. The extra work is minimal so there isn’t much of a time cost to it. I wouldn’t call it overengineering, it’s just a different way to write code, and the way many naturally default to without really thinking about it.

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        1 year ago

        Maybe it’s just me being bad at programming, but I used to do the right-hand style of programming and usually ended with wrong abstractions that were holding back development as requirements changed.