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You say that like real-time multiplayer gaming doesn't exist or something. Both of them have worked on those.... I think Carmack invented a lot of the techniques we use for those.

Yeah sure, the scale is smaller, but you can't get away with making the user wait 10 seconds to render text and images to a screen either. I think the software world might be a lot better place if more developers thought like game developers.

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Let's not turn it into penis measuring contents, please. Code organization and requirements differ significantly between different programming niches, and the today's accepted practices are not some randomly invented caprices, but the result of the slow (and painful) evolution we've been fighting through past decades. Each niche has optimized over time for its own needs and requirements. My web apis have hundreds of controllers and keeping them in separate files makes it way easier to manage. I know that because we used to keep it all in a single file and it sucked, so over time I learned not to do it anymore. Does it mean that embedded systems devs should organize their code in the same way? I have no idea, that's up to them to decide, based on their specific environment, code and experience.

> Each niche has optimized over time for its own needs and requirements.

Sure, but those "needs and requirements" aren't necessarily aligned with things that produce good software, and I think a lot of software development these days is not aligned. Further, I think the evolutionary path of the web in particular has produced a monstrosity that we'd be better off scrapping and starting over with at this point, but that's a tangential discussion.

> My web apis have hundreds of controllers

That you probably don't even need, but there's a paradigm of "every function should be it's own class" that some devs seem to follow that I will never understand.

I don't do one function one class mantra, but I absolutely need the separate controllers to group methods because each set of them does different things and returns different data. If in my 20+ years of web dev I learned one thing, it's that trying to be too smart with code optimizations and mixing different logic together is never a good idea - it will always backfire on you and everything you "saved" will be nullified by extra time and effort when you're forced to untangle it in future. The whole point of what I wrote was that there's no recipes that can be just uncritically applied anywhere, you need to adapt your style to your particular needs and experience. If you don't need many controllers, great for you... but don't presume you can just copy/paste your own experience on every other project out there, and we all are stupid for doing it differently...

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