"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)
29.8%
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Design Patterns - Wikipedia

It's got names you'll recognise:

  • Factory
  • Adapter
  • Proxy
  • Singleton

etc

But was designed for a C++/Java/Smalltalk world.

IMO, if your language has first-class functions and closures, you don't really need them...

@noboilerplate Hell yes! Hung a lampshade on this when xe were contributing to the CoffeeScript Cookbook.