Feed: Slashdot
Feed Link: https://slashdot.org/
---

Title: Laravel Inventor Tells Devs To Quit Writing 'Cathedrals of Complexity'

Link: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/09/0...

Taylor Otwell, inventor and maintainer of popular PHP framework Laravel, is
warning against overly complex code and the risks of bypassing the framework.
From a report: Developers are sometimes drawn to building "cathedrals of
complexity that aren't so easy to change," he said, speaking in a podcast for
maintainable.fm, a series produced by Ruby on Rails consultancy Planet Argon.
Software, he said, should be "simple and disposable and easy to change." Some
problems are genuinely complex, but in general, if a developer finds a
"clever solution" which goes beyond the standard documented way in a
framework such as Laravel or Ruby on Rails, "that would be like a smell." A
code smell -- for the uninitiated in the The Reg readership -- is a term
developers use for code that works but may cause problems at a later date.
Otwell described himself as a "pretty average programmer" but reckons many
others are the same, solving basic problems as quickly and efficiently as
they can.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

---
VRSS v2.1.180528