Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer.

Some amount of boilerplate probably needs to exist, but in general it would be better off minimized. For a decade or so there's sadly been a trend of deliberately increasing it.

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coldtea 4 days ago | parent | next [-]

>Saying boilerplate should exist is like saying every nail should have its own hammer

It's rather saying that we should have parts that join without nailing by now, especially for things we do again and again and again and again.

	▲	jama211 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Did you read shouldn’t when they wrote should?

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jama211 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I didn’t say it should exist, only implied it’s a practical inevitability for the moment.

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kazinator 4 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Rather, it is boilerplate that replicates hammers along with nails.