
Why Your Code Shouldn't Always Be DRY: A Practical Guide to Knowing When to Break the Rules
If you’ve been in programming for more than five minutes, you’ve probably heard the sacred mantra: “Don’t Repeat Yourself”. It’s treated like the holy scripture of code quality, whispered in code reviews, preached in bootcamps, and invoked by developers everywhere like some sort of software incantation. But here’s the thing—and I say this with all the love in my heart for clean code—dogmatically following DRY might be one of the most effective ways to create a maintenance nightmare....



