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Your folder structure has two jobs, but only does one
A new essay argues that the way developers organise files into folders is being asked to do two different things at once, and currently only accomplishes one of them. The piece is drawing attention on Hacker News, where readers are debating whether project folder structures should communicate intent to humans or serve build and tooling needs, and why the two goals so often conflict in practice.
Why now: Developers on Hacker News are debating a provocative take on a familiar day-to-day problem in code organisation.
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