> with time, you will become better because you have more options to select as the best option given the context
This is one of the parts I feel like I'm actually behind on in my career, despite (and probably in part caused by) having read tons and tons of articles about things like Hexagonal Architecture, DDD, layered architectures, Functional Core Imperative Shell, etc. Despite my almost now 10-years of programming experience, I still could pretty much only come up with two designs for my side-project, on two different extremes
1. A fully de-coupled and well layered event-driven solution that is way too complex for a small side project (and probably too complex for me to implement properly at this point)
2. A "simple" design where I have a few large classes that handle just about everything, with no good model on how to break up the different concepts, aside from just...naively breaking up big classes into smaller classes
Maybe I'm just being overly-critical of what I created for #2, but I just wish I had a better feel for where to draw the lines in my app.
I've been out of school and working full-time at a well-regarded company doing full-stack Web Dev for 5 years now. But despite my career going well, I still feel like my approach to building software, both at work and for my personal projects, is not nearly as solid as I'd expect. In particular, I have a desire to write simple and straightforward software, but for whatever reason feel incapable...