"Copy paste programming" vs "Code Reuse Abuse"

[wallymathieu]

https://blog.christianposta.com/design/the-cost-of-code-reuse-abuse/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy-and-paste_programming

• What should be same, what should be similar?

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2011/02/03/lego-blocks-and-organ-transplants/

Cop out because requirement dysplasia?

Lovingly crafted screws instead of standard ones?

When you have a hammer everything becomes a nail. Must create boat out of concrete because that is the standard mainstream building block.

https://github.com/Ghost---Shadow/i18nize-react

https://blog.codinghorror.com/the-delusion-of-reuse/

https://phauer.com/2020/wall-coding-wisdoms-quotes/

Premature duplication of code? Or what happens if you miss the abstractions that the business has, but you are stuck in details? Similar to how you can denormalise data and arrive at a solution that does not behave as the business expects?

jscpd

Can we see anything related to copy paste abuse in open source code?

Modular monolith code base:

eShopOnContainers:

SimplCommerce

nopCommerce

woo commerce

"Pragmatic programmer" : "The Evils of Duplication". Duplicating code means duplicating knowledge.

https://aaronstannard.com/dry-gone-bad-bespoke-company-framework/

[wallymathieu]

At the same time we should not see duplication of patterns as something bad since trying to avoid that duplication might lead to hard to understand code if the patterns are not thought through enough.

[wallymathieu]

If you look at it from a broader perspective. It is preferable for some solutions to be library methods instead of stack overflow answers. We have seen asp.net core questions end up as improvements of asp.net core. Needs a reference ...

[wallymathieu]

Copy paste vs wrong abstractions makes sense if you try to compress the solution without having sufficient insights into "natural" abstractions for the domain.

[wallymathieu]

This might somewhat be related to in the long term: https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

[wallymathieu]

https://jerf.org/iri/post/2024/dry_strong/