Code boilerplate: Is it always bad?
Hey HN, I wrote this post. I&#x27;m getting the sense that not a lot of commenters are taking the time to read the contents before reacting to the title, so I&#x27;ll share a little spoiler&#x2F;TL;DR:<p>Good boilerplate is boilerplate that usually gets changed over time (and in different ways each time) as we iterate over the code.<p>It took me a while to come to this realization (and I explain the reasoning and consequences in the post), so I hope it&#x27;s helpful to other people who might not have found this intuitively obvious.<p>Also perhaps &quot;terse&quot; or &quot;clever&quot; are not the best words to describe the counterpoint—I welcome edit suggestions.