[Spiwux]

I really do not understand these memes about overengineered FactoryFactoryFactories. I have 10 YOE, did I just get lucky? I've worked at enterprise Java shops as well, but even there I'd call the software pragmatic. Are these overengineered monstrosities REALLY still a thing, or is it "just" people suffering in legacy projects? Even the juniors I worked with were following KISS and YAGNI.

[davedx]

Yeah I think in the last 10 years things have definitely changed. One of the last Java projects I worked on was in 2013 and the lead was ex-Google; he deliberately pulled in the simplest Java libs to get the job done and we didn’t over engineer anything. Contrast that with 1990-2010, the era of struts and enterprise java beans, things were definitely different back then.

[_v7gu]

Yes, some people read Clean Code and think every file should have less than 20 lines. I recently inherited a React project that has all single-use utility functions, graphql queries and component types extracted out to different files. Having to edit five+ files to change things in one component is a nightmare experience and slows down changes a lot.