8 stories tagged abstraction, newest first.
497 points by rafaepta | 318 comments
Sandi Metz's blog post "The Wrong Abstraction" argues that duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction and explains how bad abstractions accumulate.
388 points by xyzal | 318 comments
Blog post by Mauro Bieg on the Mastro site comparing AI's effect on programming jobs to frontend development's earlier deskilling and "lost decade."
420 points by gpm | 136 comments
Bryan Cantrill blog essay on Larry Wall's programmer virtue of laziness and the risks to software design when that laziness is lost.
546 points by fagnerbrack | 213 comments
A blog post arguing that many so-called abstractions in codebases are merely layers of indirection that add complexity and hurt performance without real value.
690 points by thunderbong | 368 comments
Google Testing Blog "Code Health" post arguing against applying Don't Repeat Yourself too early, since premature abstractions make future changes harder.
386 points by fbrusch | 65 comments
A blog post taking a deep dive into the layers of abstraction behind a modern Hello World program written in C.
336 points by kiyanwang | 276 comments
Dan Abramov's 2020 blog post on overreacted reflecting on rewriting a colleague's repetitive code into an abstraction and why chasing clean code can be a mistake.
674 points by riidom | 427 comments
An opinion essay on unixsheikh.com arguing that the software industry relies on too many layers of abstraction, leaving few people who understand how the underlying technology works.