Dan Abramov The wet codebase

Why HN readers recommended it

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

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

eswarnichtsmehrfrei

Topic

abstraction and code duplication

Format

talk

Level

intermediate

HN recommenders in dataset

3

HN mentions in dataset

5

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• The visualizations in Dan Abramov’s talk “The wet codebase” [1] really burned this concept in for me. Seeing what a premature, wrong abstraction looks like visually was eye opening. [1] [VIDEO]

• In my career as a software dev I've found one thing to be true - Every Paradigm I ingest that opens new windows of opportunity are great at first pass and as I learn more the more narrow the scope they can be applied. (This …

• I like Dan Abramov's "The Wet Codebase" ( [VIDEO] ) -- I've been guilty of doing just what he says in his talk at first, removing all duplications and making the codebase DRY. But then I came to like "prefer duplication over the wrong abstraction", …