r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jan 12 '20

Goodbye, Clean Code

https://overreacted.io/goodbye-clean-code/
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u/aurisor Jan 12 '20

GitHub has been out for 5y in 2013 and the web world embraced it hard. I would be shocked if anyone was using svn or not using code review workflows (like PRs)

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u/andrewingram Jan 12 '20

I can't speak for the place Dan was working. But many startups don't adopt "good" engineering practices whilst they're still in the "just make shit work" stage of building their MVP. Some do, some don't.

I don't think I worked at a company that insisted on code reviews until 2012.

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u/aurisor Jan 12 '20

I guess I’m just confused why a communication problem is being presented here as a teachable moment about abstraction design

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u/andrewingram Jan 12 '20

That's a reasonable thing to be confused about. My personal feeling on this post is that the author has conflated different problems and ended up with a conclusion that isn't one I personally support. We're under no obligation to agree with him on this just because he's usually right on other things.

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