Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Design Is Underrated

Re:Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Desi... by stinos on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @08:57AM (#21004875)

2000-line God class ... "hard to read" because they need to open a new file

Might be me, but I've always found this a rather strange argument: either they aren't using 'go to definition' which means that to be able to read the other code they have to scroll through the file manually, leaving where they are, and then go back. That's not really convenient? Or they are using 'go to / peek definition' and then it doesn't really matter it's in another file?

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Re:Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Desi... by goto_self on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:46AM (#21005951)

I have counterpoints on both ends here.

It's not always possible for a "goto definition" function to work in dynamic languages.

If you're in a large file, it's quite easy to jump around with line marks (a la vim), searching, etc.

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Re:Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Desi... by stinos on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @10:57AM (#21006075)

Good point about dynamic languages. But line marks also work across files, right?

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Re:Software Architecture Is Overrated, Clear and Simple Desi... by goto_self on Wednesday September 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#21006327)

Yes. Line marks are amazing.

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