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Modularity and minimalism

Modularity and minimalism

Posted Jan 7, 2013 5:29 UTC (Mon) by jrn (subscriber, #64214)
In reply to: Tiling is awesome by dlang
Parent article: Awesome 3.5 released

> It also becomes much harder to test the new version of something when it has lots of dependencies and you therefor end up needing new versions of all those dependencies.

Not to mention that dependencies sometimes break API.

More importantly, too much reliance on the wrong components can produce inefficient and unpleasant code. http://www.dreamsongs.com/MobSoftware.html


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