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Data-Driven Development is a Lie

https://grishaev.me/en/ddd-lie

In the Clojure community, people often discuss such things as data-driven development. It is like you don’t write any code or logic. Instead, you declare data structures, primarily maps, and whoosh: there is a kind of Deus ex Machina that evaluates...

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

This is true of [insert programming paradigm here]

I don’t know why any reasonable software Dev would think one-paradigm-fits-all. And I’m equally alarmed when I see articles that say that a paradigm is useless…

That’s literally the job, people. You need to know enough paradigms to know which applies, when. And you need to be able to drive the discussion with a team about why and how.

Stop expecting everything to be easy