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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by eurasiantiger on Sunday May 29, 2022 @07:21AM (#31548235)
Exactly the opposite in my experience. The worst maintainable code is usually the minimal ”prototype” or ”MVP” solution. Couple it with time pressured continuous development and you get spaghetti.

Maintainable code has sane abstractions, it wraps external dependencies, and it has minimal interfaces between them and other code. Minimal here doesn’t mean quantitatively minimal but qualitatively minimal.

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Re:The use of ‘class’ for things that should be simple free ... by mojuba on Sunday May 29, 2022 @08:37AM (#31548655)
Spaghetti is not minimalism, it's quite the opposite. You should minimize dependencies, minimize every function, avoid repetitions, etc. What you mean by MVP that evolves into spaghetti is called "incompetence".
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