9 stories tagged refactoring, 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.
403 points by todsacerdoti | 78 comments
Go Blog post by Alan Donovan explaining the rewritten go fix command in Go 1.26 for modernizing code, its analysis infrastructure, and self-service analyzers.
603 points by Gricha | 371 comments
Blog post by Greg Pstrucha describing an experiment in which Claude repeatedly reworked an app's codebase to make it the "highest quality", and what happened.
495 points by goranmoomin | 177 comments
A blog post by matklad giving two rules of thumb: move if conditions up to callers and push for loops down into batch-processing functions, with Rust examples.
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.
480 points by akshaysg | 181 comments
Landing page for Haystack Editor, a canvas-based IDE forked from VS Code that shows code as a graph and uses an AI copilot for navigation and refactoring.
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.
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.
606 points by celeritascelery | 274 comments
A blog post by matklad giving two rules of thumb: move if conditions up to callers and push for loops down into batch-processing functions, with Rust examples.