The DRY Principle is questionable 🤯 ⚠️

Software Developers.

The principle: Don't Repeat Yourself is questionable. It can lead to more complexity if you take it too seriously. Code duplication is not always the worst and sometimes better than the complexity that might come with removing it. Manually doing things is also not always worth automating, if it is a simple task done rarely.

#softwaredeveloper #programmer

[codemadesimple]

Spending time on automating manual tasks that you need to do rarely is questionable 🤨

[Rustmilian]

DRY is more a guideline to encourage modular design, not an actual rule.

[codemadesimple]

Removing Code Duplication is not always worth it. Sometimes it is better to just embrace it.

Especially for unit tests that often become unreadable if you refactor them too much ⚠️