alt Hacker NewsI have to agree, it's much easier to remove and consolidate duplicative work than unwind a poor abstraction that is embedded everywhere.
And I think it's easy to see small companies lean on the duplication because it's too easy to screw up abstractions without more engineering heads involved to get it right sometimes.
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locknitpicker • last Sunday at 3:05 PM
> I have to agree, it's much easier to remove and consolidate duplicative work than unwind a poor abstraction that is embedded everywhere.
That is basically the core tenet of "Write Everything Twice" (WET)
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> it's much easier to remove and consolidate duplicative work than unwind a poor abstraction that is embedded everywhere.
It's not easy to deduplicate after a few years have passed, and one copy had a bugfix, another got a refactoring improvement, and a third copy got a language modernization.
With poor abstractions, at least you can readily find all the places that the abstraction is used and imorove them. Whereas copy-paste-modified code can be hard to even find.