cmuratori-discussion

See Casey's code snippets here: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...

Reminds me of a discussion that Casey Muratori and Robert Martin had over clean code and it's impact on performance... but not because of the subject matter. They were using GitHub as a medium for their discussion, and they ran into some serious lag when typing paragraphs into just the hundreds of characters (ctrl+f emoji, ~1/4 of the way through): https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...

I also love Clean Code and think it unfairly gets a bad rap, but here's a great, sometimes hostile, conversation with the author that touches on the issues: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c... The linked video is also a good watch.

So like, Clean Code really does say you should write four line functions, and does not put caveats on that statement, Uncle Bob even gives a lengthy terrible-looking example of a class written with 4-line functions and holds it up as the ideal. His views as expressed in that book are extreme and uncompromising, the “everything in moderation, there are many ways to write clean code” stuff is a rhetorical act he does when people call him out. Then when they’re gone and he thinks he can get away with it he starts speaking in absolute statements again. Like, this is a conversation Uncle Bob had with Casey Muratori on GitHub, I came away feeling like Uncle Bob is more interested in playing rhetorical judo than anything else: https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion/blob/main/c...

I think Martin has a lot more to answer for as far as the sorry state of software today goes. Watching his discussion with Casey Muratori on GitHub last year was great. Not many people saw it, but boy does he compare poorly to a truly capable and knowledgeable programmer - https://github.com/unclebob/cmuratori-discussion