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[-] bjornsno@lemm.ee 18 points 1 year ago

Why is the joke with Java always factories? Factories are really super useful in a dependency injection context.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I've been working primarily in Go for the past five years, including some extremely complex projects, and I have never once wished I had dependency injection. It has been wonderful. I have used dependency injection - previously I worked on a C# project for years, and that used DI - but I adore Go's simplicity and I never want to use anything else (except for JS for UI, via Electron or Wails for desktop).

Edit: If we're talking about dependency injection in the general sense (separation of concerns, modularization, loose coupling), then yeah I agree that's kind of critical to writing good, maintainable software. When I hear "dependency injection" I think of frameworks such as Unity, and that is what I was specifically talking about - I am very happy with the fact that I have felt zero need to use any framework like that over the last five years.

[-] firelizzard@programming.dev 2 points 1 year ago

How does dependency injection have anything to do with writing tests? I write tests by writing a test function that executes the code I want to test...

I mean unit tests. I work on Spring Boot apps where there are distinct layers (controller -> service -> persistence), and you generally inject mocks into your object to isolate tests to the specific code you want under test. One benefit of this approach is that it's pretty easy to get 90% coverage.

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