[Validark]

I hate the idea of having one "Software Discipline". Something is lost when people are constrained by OOP or TDD or "Clean Code". Obviously, as with the example of TDD in the article, a lot of these terms mean different things to different people. Hence whenever "Clean Code" is criticized, people who think their code is "clean" take up arms.

I tend to disagree with most of these rulesets that are meaningless to "engineering". The idea that a function should only be 40 lines long is offensive to me. Personally, I would rather have one 400 line function than ten 40 line functions. I'm a Ziguana. I care about handling edge cases and I think my programming language should be a domain specific language to produce optimal assembly.

I would not constrain other people who feel differently. I read an article where some project transitioned from Rust to Zig, even though the people on the team were all Rustaceans. Obviously their Rust people hated this and left! To me, that's not a step in the right direction just because I prefer Zig to Rust! That's a disaster because you're taking away the way your team wants to build software.

I think hardly any of the things we disagree on actually have much to do with "Engineering". We mostly aren't proving our code correct, nor defining all the bounds in which it should work. I personally tend to think in those terms and certain self-contained pieces of my software have these limits documented, but I'm not using tools that do this automatically yet. I'd love to build such tools in the coming years though. But there's always the problem that people build tools that don't notice common use-cases that are correct, and then people have to stop doing correct things that the tool can't understand.