• 9point6@lemmy.world
    1·
    8 months ago

    Const everything by default

    If you need to mutate it, you don’t, you need to refactor.

    • noli@programming.dev
      2·
      8 months ago

      Dogmatic statements like this lead to bad, messy code. I’m a firm believer that you should use whatever style fits the problem most.

      Although I agree most code would be better if people followed this dogma, sometimes mutability is just more clean/idiomatic/efficient/…

      • Corbin@programming.devEnglish
        01·
        8 months ago

        Define your terms before relying on platitudes. Mutability isn’t cleaner if we want composition, particularly in the face of concurrency. Being idiomatic isn’t good or bad, but patterned; not all patterns are universally desirable. The only one which stands up to scrutiny is efficiency, which leads to the cult of performance-at-all-costs if one is not thoughtful.