The Wet Codebase: Why Duplication Can Beat Wrong Abstractions

eswarnichtsmehrfrei · Talk · 25 min · 2021 · YouTube title: Dan Abramov The wet codebase

Why it's here

Recommended in DRY versus duplication debates for its visuals and its case that copy/paste can beat a wrong abstraction.

What it covers

Dan Abramov's talk on the wet codebase, using visualizations to show how removing all duplication too early produces wrong abstractions that are hard to unwind.