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> I feel like no one serious uses the uncle Bob style of programming anymore (where each line is extracted into its own method)

Alas, there's a lot of Go people who enjoy that kind of thing (flashback to when I was looking at an interface calling an interface calling an interface calling an interface through 8 files ... which ended up in basically "set this cipher key" and y'know, it could just have been at the top.)

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Hardcore proponents of this style often incant 'DRY' and talk about reuse, but in most cases, this reuse seems to be much more made available in principle than found useful in practice.

There's also the "it makes testing easier because you can just swap in another interface and you don't need mocks" argument - sure but half of the stuff I find like this doesn't even have tests and you still tend to need mocks for a whole bunch of other cases anyway.

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