This post is not advice, it's what's working for me.
It's easy to pick up bad habits and hard to create good ones. Writing down what's working for me hel...
I 98% agree. Only thing I’m not sure about is if third copy/paste is always a bad thing. There are things like configuration and templates where independency is more important than DRY. Sometimes you do those through code.
Yeah in reality it’s even the fourth or fifth copy-paste that actually warrants generalizing, inevitably I find some tweak I need to make to two of the places to render the original generalization a waste of time
But if you are going to copy and paste make sure you keep it as similar as possible to the other instances to make it easy to refactor if you revisit in future
I 98% agree. Only thing I’m not sure about is if third copy/paste is always a bad thing. There are things like configuration and templates where independency is more important than DRY. Sometimes you do those through code.
Yeah in reality it’s even the fourth or fifth copy-paste that actually warrants generalizing, inevitably I find some tweak I need to make to two of the places to render the original generalization a waste of time
But if you are going to copy and paste make sure you keep it as similar as possible to the other instances to make it easy to refactor if you revisit in future
Totally agree. Like most “rules”, it just needs treating with nuance and context.