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Coming up with variable/class names is one of the most annoying aspects of programming, so any way we can eliminate that task I think is always going to be a productivity boom

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So strange. Using good variable names is even better than docs in my experience. And having HTML where every div is named helps a ton. It blows my mind how different people's preferences can be on these things.

Memorizing and looking up names has significant impact on my productivity, especially on codebases that I do not touch frequently. I often losing my train of thought or momentum because of too much abstraction

Most people suck at naming things. Also, most companies don’t have a strong culture for choosing names carefully.

Honestly, I agree with you on the good variable names, but in average team setting I prefer no names than bad ones.

Yes, communicating intent to other programmers and our future selves is hard, so let's not do it.

well, sometimes. yes.

the semantics of most html elements is useless to know for more devs (and classes don't help users)

in fact a class like .red conveys more useful information to a developer than .standout-link because when we go to change the colour of the button it's the colour we care about, not the "purpose" of the button

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