Re:In spite of an increase in Internet speed, webpage speeds...
by userbinator on Tuesday August 04, 2020 @08:07PM
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The more modern style of heavier client-side js apps lets you use software development best practices to structure, reuse, and test your code in ways that are more readable and intuitive.
I have seen phrases like that being used to (over)sell something so many times that I feel suspicious and doubtful whenever I see them --- Enterprise Java™ is sold using similar verbiage, and yet I'd never want to work with it again. Some of the worst codebase I've worked with --- ridiculously indirect and abstracted --- were created and described with such terms.
I'll take spaghetti code over whatever dogmatically following "best" practices produces. The former "flows", while the latter "jumps".
I have seen phrases like that being used to (over)sell something so many times that I feel suspicious and doubtful whenever I see them --- Enterprise Java™ is sold using similar verbiage, and yet I'd never want to work with it again. Some of the worst codebase I've worked with --- ridiculously indirect and abstracted --- were created and described with such terms.
I'll take spaghetti code over whatever dogmatically following "best" practices produces. The former "flows", while the latter "jumps".