Code Modularity

Discussions center on the principles, benefits, challenges, and implementation of modularity in software codebases, including debates on whether modular code is always superior and how to achieve effective modularization.

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pessimizer Sep 11, 2019 View on HN

Isn't that the point of modularity?

mdcb Nov 14, 2018 View on HN

But then are your modules really modular?

jokoon Mar 7, 2019 View on HN

Aren't modules supposed to improve the situation?

scrubs Nov 22, 2025 View on HN

Enforcing modularity at a component level could be a thing ...

sir-people Nov 22, 2022 View on HN

Some thoughts around why a lot of modularisations approaches fall in modern companies

mountainriver Aug 8, 2022 View on HN

Usually the good code bases practice modularity and composition well.

CyberDildonics Aug 24, 2017 View on HN

If what they are doing is so fundamental, why isn't it more modular?

petranb2 Sep 21, 2022 View on HN

Why we need and how to create modules in a code base

z3t4 Aug 15, 2016 View on HN

i think its a common misconseption that code dissappears once you brake it down into modules.

x86x87 Jul 28, 2023 View on HN

narrator: they aren't. Code modularity is important.