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What are your programming hot takes?
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this post was submitted on 01 Sep 2023
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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
PHP the language has become pretty nice, but I recently had to work with a PHP CMS deployment, and it was an absolute pain to do. PHP frameworks seem to still exist in a world where you manually upload code to a manually configured server running apache. Dockerizing the CMS (uses Symfony) is/was an absolute pain.
I know that there are loads of solutions out there that can do this for you, though I don't have much experience with it myself directly. Not a great fan of docker, still, as it's not a requirement and in many cases that extra piece that fails and then is a PITA to fix.
I'll look to include it in my own framework, though