--- title: How I program in 2024 | daily.dev description: A programmer reflects on the evolution of their coding practices from 2015 to 2024. They discuss moving away from heavy use of tests and version control,... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-program-in-2024-jehckfun9 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: How I program in 2024 | daily.dev og:description: A programmer reflects on the evolution of their coding practices from 2015 to 2024. They discuss moving away from heavy use of tests and version control,... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-program-in-2024-jehckfun9 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/JeHCkFun9.png og:image:alt: How I program in 2024 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # How I program in 2024 **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 6 min read · 35 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A programmer reflects on the evolution of their coding practices from 2015 to 2024. They discuss moving away from heavy use of tests and version control, towards more intuitive and context-specific programming strategies. Key insights include the importance of simplicity, avoiding unnecessary abstractions, and the value of periodically rewriting software from scratch to better understand and optimize its function. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@johnydyzmatea** · 6 upvotes > Author is talking about writing "programming durable things" without tests and version control meanwhile his "Freewheeling Apps." are super small lua scripts. Whole repo for one of them is 31kb of code. > > Of course you can work without git and unit tests in so small projects and it feel faster and better without them. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#testing](https://daily.dev/tags/testing), [#version-control](https://daily.dev/tags/version-control) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-program-in-2024-jehckfun9) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"How I program in 2024","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-program-in-2024-jehckfun9","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/how-i-program-in-2024-jehckfun9"},"datePublished":"2024-08-05T03:16:13.236Z","dateModified":"2024-08-05T03:16:26.844Z","description":"A programmer reflects on the evolution of their coding practices from 2015 to 2024. 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