Some musings on how we write code
Often, code smells that are considered heresy for one gaggle of devs are taken for granted as ‘the way to do things’ by their counterparts across the road. I don’t just mean things like semicolons, tabs v spaces, or formatting. These things don’t change how the program executes (in JavaScript at least!) . I’m talking paradigms (functional vs declarative vs imperative), how to separate concerns, or even whether using nested ternaries is considered immoral. And I think many of these quirks, preferences and ideals are influenced by your environment, your coworkers (fellow pod members), and the technologies you adopt. Let’s go through a few of these. Environmental influences No matter how you spin it, your priorities are going to be a function of the size of your company/team (amongst other things, of course). Take two similarly sized covens of devs. One is weighted under the bureaucracy of middle/upper management and enterprise release cycles — and the other is fighting to sh...