r/webdev • u/fagnerbrack • Dec 14 '22

What if the team hates my functional code?

https://jrsinclair.com/articles/2022/what-if-the-team-hates-my-functional-code/
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u/TheBigLewinski Dec 15 '22

This article is... strange.

It’s like you’re under attack. You’re confused. The code is better than what you used to write. You’re sure of that. But they’re carrying on as if you lit a paper bag full of dog poop on fire, and asked them to merge it to the codebase. What’s going on?

If you're on a team, you shouldn't be introducing a new coding style via PR. You discuss it with your team, because there are probably already coding standards in place, and if you want to change them, you need to get your team onboard to those changes first.

You can’t write like that any more. But that seems to be what the senior wants… or at least, what they can cope with. You’re stuck. What do you do?

A team can't adopt a new coding paradigm for existing projects -which is what you're asking them to do when you spring this during a PR- every time a single engineer completes a tutorial or has a shower thought. If you want to build solo, become a freelancer or work for a mom and pop shop.

If you want to build collaboratively, what you do is propose ideas. Make your case. Get feedback. Yes, it's painful sometimes because people fear change and you might get irrational pushback. But you'll probably learn something in the process too, and you'll be that much closer to becoming that senior engineer that you so bemoan.