Autocomplete as an Interface (2015)

Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by gnulinux on Thursday January 16, 2020 @01:28PM (#22067344)

I disagree, there is nothing particularly different about "enterprise software" that requires a different naming scheme than other software. This is simply a cultural habit, and this cultural habit is supported by the fact that this same community uses IDEs that have good autocomplete feature. You can write enterprise software without naming your classes that long and be absolutely fine, and I argue this is not a trade-off it's merely a convention.

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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by ehnto on Thursday January 16, 2020 @05:50PM (#22069905)

Enterprise software gets a lot of cargo-culted software patterns thrown into it, for better or worse. That's why you end up with names like that. The software design is convoluted, not the naming convention. The word Factory in WidgetFactory represents a software structure, not just the fact that it makes widgets. You're probably right that it's a cultural thing to use all those patterns though, but not for nothing.

I disagree that there's nothing different about enterprise software, the needs are inherently different to a product-owner/single-purpose software platform. By enterprise software, I really mean enterprise frameworks that are used across many projects and many teams. Patterns are simply a shared language of concepts. The need for strict structure so anyone can work on it or extend it without messing the whole thing up or introducing new concepts or legacy code is what drives the patterns.

You could absolutely build super simple large scale software without all those concepts, but then you get yourself a boutique app that only your team is familiar with. Which is fine for a single product owner platform, not fine for a framework with hundreds of devs working on it who all need to collaborate without ever talking to eachother.

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Re:Autocomplete as an Interface (2015) by eitland on Thursday January 16, 2020 @02:37PM (#22068041)

Eh. Maybe not enterprise (it is extremely custom software for courts) but I was sold on the idea of DDD by someone who has to deal with one single word from the dictionary having 14 different meanings to the customer.

And since the wording is pretty much directly defined by laws and regulations you better get used to it since unlike in small businesses you cannot just argue with the product owner that these two mean the same.

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