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Discussion on: Why I can't recommend Clean Architecture by Robert C Martin

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Blaine Osepchuk • Edited

Thanks for sharing your thoughts, Samir.

Clean Code taught me how to write clean code. It was full of examples and it was logically organized and easy to understand. I can (and do) give it to juniors and tell them to read it and apply its lessons to their code and they can do that successfully.

But I can't say the same the things about Clean Architecture. It certainly didn't teach me how to create a system with a clean architecture and I believe it would be a waste of time to give it to juniors and expect them to be able to create better architected code.

I believe many people purchased Clean Architecture with the expectation it would be on the same level as Clean Code (one of the best programming books of all time) and it's not.

With that said, plenty of people rated it 5 stars on Amazon so you're not alone in your opinion.