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What are your programming hot takes?
(lemmy.ml)
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Rules
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Go with what works
Error messages should contain the information that caused the error. Your average Microsoft error "error 37253" is worthless to me
Keep functions or methods short. Anything longer than 20 - 50 lines is likely too long
Comment why is happening, not what
PHP is actually a really nice language to work with both for web and command line utils
Don't over engineer, KISS. Keep It Simple Stupid
SOLID is quite okay but sometimes there are solid reasons to break those rules
MVC is a PITA in practice, avoid it when possible
I don't have issue with methods being 200 lines, as long as they have a singel concept and is easy to follow.
If the method does a long thing, the keep it long. I do a lot of data analysis and simulation, and so often people who came before had this urge to shorten methods, so we get:
Sometimes there's a place for that, like if
calculation
could be swapped for a different function, or ifcalculation
is used all over the program. It's a pretty good clue that something is up though when the signatures are almost identical. Of course, that has just led to people writing:There are various exceptions where up to 200 lines is still okay, yes. The 50 lines rule is more a good rule of thumb.