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I think it's very telling just how little engineering there is in Software Engineering that people can call best practices "just preferences" or "marketing fluff" and not be immediately laughed out of the room.

Because that's what would happen if someone suggested "best practices smells like a marketing term" in an actual engineering discipline.

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Engineer to solve the problem. Not banter online.

My problem is people take a slogan like best practices and copy-paste in every new framework because it’s de facto best practice.

If the business is one of 1,000 todo apps, sure copy paste.

But it’s new hardware best practices are different and we ought to acknowledge that software use case isn’t as uniform as electronics, where Ohms law and material waste are coupled to waste.

Language choice and syntax choice depends on the problem as the team sees it. Avoid buffer overruns, sanitize inputs.

There you have it; software best practices.

Which brings to the realization that we have a lot of software development and much less software engineering.

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