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Discussion on: What’s an unpopular software opinion you have?

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Peter Ellis

DRY does more harm than good.

(Yes, that is deliberately bait-y, there's a lot more nuance to it in reality.)

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Ben Halpern

This is a safe space for being a bit bait-y as long as everyone is self aware enough. 😁

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Jan Wedel

For everything that goes beyond one code base, I’m in. DRY at module, service or system level has a lot of serious disadvantages, the biggest of them is creating dependencies.

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Donald Ng

100% dependencies are the worst!