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5 reasons why we (still) do not like patterns in the heart of software

We like Design Patterns. They make complicated things simpler. Our brains are designed to tackle complexity with them. It is easier to describe something with words "it's like that one thing that you know, but with some differences" than describing it completely from scratch. All frameworks that we use are full of Patterns and we understand them very well. Decorator here... Chain of responsibility there... Oh, and some old, nasty, huge and extremely overloaded Singleton over there - yup, we use it too... Piece of cake. This is our (developers) well known Domain. We are Domain Experts on that territory and we feel confident there. The reality But guess what - this is not the Domain that we are dealing with on daily basis (unless we are working on frameworks of course :P ). Our Domain, which we are struggling with, is about the business that runs our company. We don't need those mentioned Decorators and stuff. At a glance, it looks like we can ju