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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by dx034 on Monday January 13, 2020 @05:52AM (#22033364)
Code with duplications isn't less readable. Quite the opposite. Fighting your way through layers of abstractions and generalizations can make it harder to understand for someone new to the code. Especially code that will rarely be touched except for bug fixes, having it as simple as possible can often be worth it.

And in the end, users will also appreciate this. Any time spent refactoring is time not spent on new features or bug fixes. A user doesn't care if your code is cleaner (unless it was buggy before), they'd rather have new features or improved usability.

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Re:Goodbye, Clean Code by therealdrag0 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @12:40PM (#22056295)
It's gotta be case-by case, but upon shallow reflection I feel like 1 layer of abstraction is the sweet spot. I've worked on code where I have to "Go-to definition" a dozen times to figure out what is going on, and I hate it. And I have seen code where it's just a big wall of text hundreds or thousands of lines long, and I hate it.
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