30
The cardinal sin of software architecture (functional.computer)
submitted 1 day ago by codeinabox@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev
5 comments fedilink hide all child comments

The worst kind of accidental complexity in software is the unnecessary distribution, replication, or restructuring of state, both in space and time.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] thenextguy@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

I think they just had some bad experiences with bad software and generalized it. If you just glue together separate components with separate data and configuration then you’re going to have a bad day.

this post was submitted on 23 Dec 2025
30 points (94.1% liked)

Programming

24039 readers
442 users here now

Welcome to the main community in programming.dev! Feel free to post anything relating to programming here!

Cross posting is strongly encouraged in the instance. If you feel your post or another person's post makes sense in another community cross post into it.

Hope you enjoy the instance!

Rules

Rules

  • Follow the programming.dev instance rules
  • Keep content related to programming in some way
  • If you're posting long videos try to add in some form of tldr for those who don't want to watch videos

Wormhole

Follow the wormhole through a path of communities !webdev@programming.dev

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
snowe@programming.dev
Ategon@programming.dev
MaungaHikoi@lemmy.nz
UlrikHD@programming.dev