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A lot of discussions this week on X and on LinkedIn about mocks, e2e, Go vs C#, and good vs badly written code. Watched the threads from afar, and if you squint, most in the thread have different definitions for those words.

I find it difficult to participate because 2 people talking about 2 completely different things, and debating some point of view doesn’t make any sense when the point of view isn’t viewed correctly or the same by people in the thread.

I can help with the Mock and Stub. I can help a little with the e2e. I can’t help much with “good code”. I can’t help you at all comparing language ecosystems. So I’ll just cover the first 3.

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Ruminations on the 2 extreme positions of “You build the UI” vs’ “You build the UI and the API back-end for front-end”.

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Watching a Kent Beck talk, and because of recent events, I really liked his definition of the 2 types of developer preferences: “Lumpers” and “Splitters” (at 41:30 mark)

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“We hire React developers”. Sadly, that doesn’t really hold up; you’ll need to be wayyyyyy more specific. What does “React developer” mean?

Some write JavaScript, some write TypeScript.

Some use classes, some use Hooks.

Some use imperative/procedural style components, some create pure ones, some use higher order components, some use Mediators, some utilize functional core/imperative shell, some practice a variety utilize a combination thereof, and others have no idea and just inject hooks until they’re “done”.

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