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Is Clean Architecture actually good? What's your experience? (programming.dev)

submitted 4 days ago by somegeek@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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cross-posted from: https://programming.dev/post/54023908

Hi!

I've never read any of Uncle Bob's books. But I have taken interest in "Clean Architecture" as it seems like a good solution to make mid to large sized projects simple to understand and maintain.

I think MVC gets too much coupling and fails at larger projects, same with n-tier. But I'm not sure about anything right now (software design is a very complicated problem after all).

So I was wondering if you friends who have used Clean Architecture in production can share your knowledge and experience with me about this design?

Is it actually good and worth investing in?

Footnote:

I'm especially weighing this architecture because Uncle Bob's writings are really hit and miss. I don't see him as a master or guru so I take everything he says with a grain of salt.

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[–] AlteredEgo@lemmy.ml 0 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I've become disillusioned with such approaches because coders tend to loose themselves in the aesthetics of ideas and architectures. And that can lead to high verbosity for something that could be much simpler, which then makes code harder to read and browse. Basically I doubt that complex software problem can actually be planned and designed without programming them first. That could well be just my own limits.

So today I prefer a bit of a "return to monke" C-style procedural approach and don't even like OOP anymore.

I do wonder if there is a more formal framework for natural language (AI prompt) programming. Maybe LLMs could be used as an actual research tool to explore a high number of different architectures of well defined programs, and then compare them. Like have the same app programmed in hundreds of different languages, designs and idioms, and then compare them to get the answer to your question.