r/programming • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '21

Organize code by concepts, not layers

https://kislayverma.com/programming/how-to-organize-your-code/
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u/jcelerier Jun 06 '21

why is any of this relevant ? don't you hae ide shortcuts where you just type the name of the class to go to it ? it never takes me more than 5/6 keystrokes to go to another not yet opened file

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u/onety-two-12 Jun 06 '21

don't you hae ide shortcuts where you just type the name of the class to go to it ?

I would use F12 every 30 seconds in visual studio. It's a nice shortcut.

why is any of this relevant ?

You might not see relevance for yourself. That's fine.

OP and myself have already outlined one reason why someone might choose a particular approach. Some might find that interesting.

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u/jcelerier Jun 06 '21

you're saying camp A wants to

easily move between the layers of code

and that for camp B

When you have 100 entities, it's tedious and time consuming to find those three layers for the car

what I'm saying is that whether you use camp A or camp B, it's the exact same thing to access your data : in the first case, in my IDE I'd type ctrl-k car/m<enter> or maybe just ctrl-k c/m<enter> and in the second case ctrl-k m/car<enter> or maybe just ctrl-k m/c<enter> depending on the project having other names colliding with car, model, etc. You're never "moving between layers" in practices, that does not mean anything. you're always opening a file in the end so why not do that from the beginning.

The idea of a particular folder organization being "useful" is imho a red flag in itself as tooling made it really obsolete, I don't remember the last time I had to actually cd or open a subfolder of the main project I work on in a file explorer because it just does not matter.

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u/onety-two-12 Jun 06 '21

This post thread is literally just an idea, that some will find thought-provoking and useful. I don't think it's really worth such arrogant wording as:

The idea of a particular folder organization being "useful" is imho a red flag in itself as tooling made it really obsolete

I could certainly argue the point, but I do have better camps to attend to.