Data-Driven Development is a Lie

https://grishaev.me/en/ddd-lie

In the Clojure community, people often discuss such things as data-driven development. It is like you don’t write any code or logic. Instead, you declare data structures, primarily maps, and whoosh: there is a kind of Deus ex Machina that evaluates…

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  • Alexc@lemmings.world
    5·
    10 months ago

    This is true of [insert programming paradigm here]

    I don’t know why any reasonable software Dev would think one-paradigm-fits-all. And I’m equally alarmed when I see articles that say that a paradigm is useless…

    That’s literally the job, people. You need to know enough paradigms to know which applies, when. And you need to be able to drive the discussion with a team about why and how.

    Stop expecting everything to be easy

  • vi21English
    3·
    10 months ago

    I usually confuse between data-driven and data-oriented. So data-driven development is not the same as data-oriented programming, is it?