Refactoring and incremental improvements are often the better path to take. It’s very difficult to rebuild a legacy system from the ground up. The total cost of owning a mess compounds over time. So without further ado, let’s consider all the timeless advice that Clean Code has to offer! We’ll go through the book, chapter by chapter, summarizing many of the ideas Uncle Bob presents. So whether you agree or disagree, it would be a shame if you did not see, and respect, our point of view. We have learned them through decades of experience and repeated trial and error. On the other hand, the recommendations in this book are things that we have thought long and hard about. You might violently disagree with some of them. You will probably not agree with all of them. Many of the recommendations in this book are controversial. In fact, Uncle Bob and the other contributing authors have taken care to preemptively handle this concern in the book’s first chapter: But let’s not be so quick to discount all the good advice that the book has to offer!Ĭompletely ignoring a book simply because of a few bad ideas is a perfect example of several cognitive distortions: mental filtering, magnification, and discounting the positive, to name a few. Yes, some of the content feels dated or hasn’t aged well with time.

Yes, some of the advice in the book is questionable. I’d argue that sentiments like this are deeply misguided. Search any list of “top books for software engineers,” and you are almost guaranteed to find this book on the list.Īnd yet, some people love to hate on Clean Code, even going so far as to say that it’s probably time to stop recommending Clean Code. Martin is the most recommended programming book of all time.

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