I'm currently in the process of porting api code from .net 3.2 soap where the code is a mixture of string based SQL queries and stored procedures to a .net core 3.1 webapi mvc + ef.
Let me tell you... readability and type saftey are a boons. Not a curse.
Things still get convoluted but boy the errors that can sneak into a complex sql statement are painful to debug.
As always the pendulum in this "article/rant" is swinging in the other direction ("everything was better in the past"). Also it's fricking (almost) 7 years old. That's a lifetime in software development.
I believe that the current trend to decouple everything is one way to make something a maintenance nightmare. Using reflection or micro services to tie everything back together. Data shouldn't flow between components without some black magic fuckery ever or you could have hard dependencies that can't be decoupled easily and split into more testable functions and seperate files.
For good measure do it in TDD. That just creates the cherry on top for maintainability in high pressure scenarios where features have to be generated quickly ... and possibly not by the same dev doing previous work and is used to this high powered mode of existence.
Whatever happend to finding balance between coupling and cohesion?
I don't understand why we celebrate that. Shouldn't it be the other way around? I thought there was a consensus that loc are a bad metric at the best of times.
Edit: It's commits, not lines of code. Now I feel dumb.
Very hard. I tried and failed for the good part of the last 15 years despite mounting evidence (and resurfacing burried one). Dr. Lustig has some good talks online that were revelatory for me at the time of "my transition".
It's kind of with everything else... people are addicted (I certainly still am, after decades of sugar abuse). Then there's a whole culture around that addiction and our natural craving for easy calories (fuck evolution, really).
As with all of those issues (religion, ideology, conspiracy theories) you need to "nudge" people in the right direction so they can "discover" the issues themselves. Facts don't help nearly as much as one might hope and a lot of it is correlation obfuscated by wishful thinking and genetic variability ("but my cousin Joe always drinks a coke a day and still isn't fat!").
Ever tried to convice a smoker of non-smoking? An anti-vaxxer of his narccisistic ignorance? It's always the same pattern.
Doesn't that tell you that the method of hiring is flawed in the first place?
If you care to weed out bad candiates, what help are 100% perfectly fine take-home exercises? The only thing that tells you is, that all of your candidates are viable in the first place. Just go into an interview with THAT assumption and ask the right questions.
Why do so many companies assume that people who try to get hired for a certain job don't meet the basic requirements? That gotta be the rule not the exception? That's just a bad faith assumption.
Just make sure your hire fits into your culture and give them sufficient probation time to grow into your codebase.
Unless you are looking for a "senior developer with x years of experience". I have a live, hobbies and family. I don't care to spend most of my free time fixing code in some obscure library I'm not ever going to use only to stand a chance to get a different job in the future.
How in the world did current developers EVER get ANY job? Who gives developers the chance to grow these days?
The problem is not toxisity itself. That's but a symptom. It's:
1. People getting into positions for the wrong reasons (diversity hires),
2. No one has any kind of backbone any more... victim culture and molycoddling shows it's ugly face,
3. Real smart people that don't' want to content with stupid getting rightfully angry with their subpar collegues who are desperatly trying to being somewhat relevant.
Let's face it... scientists are most of the time not people persons. Most smart people don't care for your snowflake persona getting hurt by the truth. It's basically impossible to do antying in an environment that treats microaggressions as anything else but the completely infantile bullshit that they are.
GROW A FUCKING SPINE AND GROW THE FUCK UP WHINERS.
stop it with the feminisation of every damn sector of life already.