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Too many rules?

Too many rules?

Update: 2023-03-21
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Rules in programming can be extremely helpful, especially on a team. But is it possible to go too far with rules? We discuss a couple recent scenarios where we could have made a rule, but decided not to.


  • 00:00 I like rules

  • 01:20 Maybe going too far with rules - the scenario

  • 03:05 Bug explanation

  • 05:03 A tangent on test setup

  • 06:30 A possible rule to prevent this bug

  • 07:17 Why this rule went too far

  • 08:50 We still want to fix it, just not now

  • 09:45 Another example with syntax and code standards

  • 12:53 Silly bit

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Joel Clermont and Aaron Saray