I enjoyed this Two’s Complement podcast episode about copying and pasting. It reminded me about a problem we had at a long-ago gig, where we had two Java UI applications that shared a library. Different developers worked on each UI, and when they changed the shared library they frequently broke the other UI. (There was no CI.) We decided to inline the library into both apps, so we could evolve the code separately. We were able to delete about half of the old library code from one of the apps, and about a third in the other app. Soon even the parts that was actually used by both UIs evolved in different directions—but now without breaking the other UI.
Edited to add: The inability to link directly to an episode on their website annoyed me enough to consider joining Mastodon so I could whinge about it to the presenters ;-)
I enjoyed this Two’s Complement podcast episode about copying and pasting. It reminded me about a problem we had at a long-ago gig, where we had two Java UI applications that shared a library. Different developers worked on each UI, and when they changed the shared library they frequently broke the other UI. (There was no CI.) We decided to inline the library into both apps, so we could evolve the code separately. We were able to delete about half of the old library code from one of the apps, and about a third in the other app. Soon even the parts that was actually used by both UIs evolved in different directions—but now without breaking the other UI.
Edited to add: The inability to link directly to an episode on their website annoyed me enough to consider joining Mastodon so I could whinge about it to the presenters ;-)