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Code Design Inertia

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Lucian Ghinda

Senior Product Engineer, working in Ruby and Rails. Passionate about idea generation, creativity, and programming.

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Code Design Inertia:

The code that will be written in the future will follow the design of the code already written.

Inertia is stronger inside a file => the code added will follow the design of the code already written.

So going further with this metaphor, "consistency" is like gravity: the close you follow a guideline the harder will be to see the benefit of other ways to write code.

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Cristian Molina3y ago

like that thought! These days Rubocop enforce a lot of style and could be very opinionated :)

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Lucian Ghinda3y ago

Yep, Rubocop is a fantastic tool for enforcing guidelines, and I think using it when working in a team is somehow a reasonable price to pay for writing code that looks similar. Thus when doing a code review or changing code written by a colleague, the mental model is similar; thus, the code is easily understood.

But I am also trying to promote new features. I have a draft article about why to use new language constructs or features :) Hope to publish it in a couple of days

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