Comment by arp242

Well I am vegan, and let me tell you, some vegans are completely insufferable. While it's true that the people ranting about vegans outnumber the insufferable vegans, there is a core of truth to it.

I didn't read all 416 comments in this thread, but I've definitely worked with some people who religiously follow Clean Code to the point of toxicity. Perhaps the most bizarre example I encountered was the person who insisted that they're a backend dev, that they should never have to open the UI to test anything as tests should always be sufficient, and would continue pushing bugs in to production because the early "startup days" had produced some pretty crappy code with limited (or no!) tests. It was completely unworkable. The team literally had a party after he left. That was after two people had quit in large part due to this person.

I have also worked with some people who generally liked Clean Code but didn't follow it religiously in spite of what works for this specific project. That's fine: that's just a normal type disagreement like Python vs. Ruby or where to put the braces or whatever: you talk to each other, and reach some solution that reasonably works for everyone.

And the "reactionaries" are mostly just normal folks who want to get stuff done.