[AskJS] Why are large, sprawling functions more common than small, compact ones?

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  • next-update

    Tests if module's dependencies can be updated to latest version

    This file is basically a single, 100-line long function

  • ivi

    :fire: Javascript (TypeScript) library for building web user interfaces

    Some things are just inherently complex. Look at virtual dom reconciliation algorithm, for example. Others simply don't benefit from overly aggressive pursuit of "improvements". Look at database levels of normalization for another example of how one can apply theoretical "best practices" to the wazoo and completely lose sight of pragmatism.

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  • Torque3D

    MIT Licensed Open Source version of Torque 3D from GarageGames

    A hundred lines? Luxury! We used to have 800-line functions written in C++! But to us, that was "object-oriented" 😌

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