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I Analyzed 50 ‘Clean Code’ Examples on GitHub: They All Share These 7 Fatal Flaws
- The analysis of 50 GitHub repositories promoting 'clean code' principles revealed common fatal flaws undermining maintainability.
- One major issue was the excessive use of small functions, making code hard to follow and understand.
- Premature abstraction led to unnecessary complexity and rigid structures across repositories.
- Inconsistency in naming conventions caused confusion and hindered code readability.
- The avoidance of comments in favor of self-explanatory code resulted in unclear business logic and reasoning.
- Overapplication of design patterns often led to unnecessary complexity in codebases.
- Extreme adherence to SOLID principles, especially the Single Responsibility Principle, fragmented business logic.
- Excessive test coverage testing implementation details rather than behavior made codebases resistant to changes.
- The analysis suggests a need to balance clean code principles with context and pragmatism for better maintainability.
- Moving beyond dogmatic application of clean code principles can lead to more effective and pragmatic coding practices.
- The focus should be on creating code that is maintainable, understandable, and balances various concerns effectively.
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