Repeat yourself, dammit!
Dry is dead and we Killed it.
Dry is Dead and we Killed it.
top using DRY or making everything into a component/function. DRY leads to complexity. Sure, there might be less of it, but theres a higher density of complexity. I'd rather have more code, that is simple.
One of my favorite scenarios: having like 3 different wrappers of 1 tool. What if instead we didn't write a wrapper and just used the tool raw? Thats way less code, and way less complex since we didn't have to constantly add features to the wrapper to re-expose features of the original tool. And if we need to know how to use the tool, you've got plenty of examples of that vs one really convoluted and generic-ified usage of it.
We should instead use WET(write everything twice/thrice) or AHA(avoid hasty abstractions). Another way to put it is:
Optimize for change first.
What other people say
Other people have said this before and likely did a better job.
- AHA Programming by Kent C. Dodds
- The Wrong Abstraction by Sandi Metz
- Please do repeat yourself (DRY is dead) by Rafal Stozek
- Do Repeat Yourself by Ted Spence
- Do Repeat yourself by Lucian Radu Teodorescu
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