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In many real-world apps, convention is far more important to the ability to add or change code than whether you write in some naive or mature style. That convention may be flawed, and even then you'd need a good reason to fight against it. It's also notable that convention almost certainly means structure and abstraction.

Sometimes I look at a codebase and I barely need to look around to feel at home. How do you grok a codebase while barely looking at it? Convention.




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