Comment by Communitivity

5 years ago

For me Clean Code is not about slavishly adhering to the rules therein, but about guidelines to help make your code better if you follow them, in most circumstances. On his blog Bob Martin himself says about livable code vs pristinely clean code: "Does this rule apply to code? It absolutely does! When I write code I fight very hard to keep it clean. But there are also little places where I break the rules specifically because those breakages create affordances for transient issues."

I've found the Clean Code guidelines very useful. Your team's mileage may very. As always: Use what works, toss the rest, give back where you can.

For more about this see:

* Bob Martin's blog post 'Too Clean' - https://blog.cleancoder.com/uncle-bob/2018/08/13/TooClean.ht...