"A modern developer need not know the Gang of Four "Design Patterns",
but they should at least have forgotten them."

Agree? 🤔

 boost appreciated, let's find out!

Yep, still relevant
34.7%
No, it's not 1994
35.5%
The what patterns? (see replies)
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@noboilerplate familiarity with them is important but strict adherence and implementing them in an OO fashion is outdated for sure.

Iirc in the book they present the patterns as a common language to talk about common problems in software engineering.

Furthermore in same languages some patterns are just “languages features.” E.g. Strategy pattern is just implementing an interface (perhaps not even formally for dynamic languages) and applying function composition.

#DesignPatterns