Is Your Code DRY or WET?
Don’t Repeat Yourself (DRY) is a software development principle, the main aim of which is to reduce repetition of code.
Write Everything Twice (WET) is a cheeky abbreviation to mean the opposite to DRY principle.
So each Software principle has Proc and Cons. Lets discuss about it more.
DRY
Advantages
- One Good thing is
Readability, you can easily follow the code. Reusabilityis also more important, because same code piece can be reused with little logic change.-
Costis more important nowadays, when growing code base, it takes time to test, deploy, storage capacity and so on. -
Maintainabilityalso more important, because change of logic in one place applies all over the places.
Disadvantages
- You may have to
think a lotbefore implement the logic, because same functionality will be used in any other places. -
Over-dried codemay not easily understandable.
WET
Advantages
Separatorcode for each functionality.
Disadvantages
- Low
Application efficiency
Which one is best?
In terms of deciding DRY or WET bit hard in first place, Personally I feel ugly, When look at the WET code. But if you follow good OOP – Inheritance, Polymorphous, encapsulation and good design patterns, that make you NOT to be WET too much and stay in DRY and shiny.
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Yes, initially I had lots of confusion between these two, this article came up with my experinace and what I red from many Developers, just thought to summaries where that can be used by some one else in later.
In other way “if we write good code , maintains will be easier, because we are the who maintain after development”
Feel free to add anything. 🙂
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