• AA5B@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    Complexity or “complexity”? A couple months ago I had to accept a merge from a junior developer that is now flagged as the code with the highest complexity in my code base. It was in Groovy and he must have just discovered closures. Instead of breaking up the code in nice modular testable blocks, it was massive methods hundreds of lines long, and the most egregious use of closures

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      Not necessarily closures, but it involved many dynamically generated lists of lambdas passed around through many layers of abstraction.