> Principles are a bit subjective and if you lean on them all the time without thought it's a sort of laziness - you're not really examining the situation and what it merits.
I think there’s a very important developmental stage for programmers where they buy in to a set of principles past the point of all reason. It can be maddening to work with them at this stage. They’re all in on type systems or OOP or hexagonal architecture or what have you, and everything looks like a nail for that hammer. But eventually, some of them see the shortcomings of the one true way and come out better programmers for it.
I think there’s a very important developmental stage for programmers where they buy in to a set of principles past the point of all reason. It can be maddening to work with them at this stage. They’re all in on type systems or OOP or hexagonal architecture or what have you, and everything looks like a nail for that hammer. But eventually, some of them see the shortcomings of the one true way and come out better programmers for it.