Weekly Dev Tips

Primitive Obsession

11.20.2017 - By Steve Smith (@ardalis)Play

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Primitive Obsession describes code in which the design relies too heavily on primitive types, rather than solution-specific abstractions. It often results in more verbose code with more duplication of logic, since logic cannot be embedded with the primitive types used.

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