What's a design pattern

It's a way of designing code.

Most languages have them but among the most common are singletons and factories.

A singleton is a class that only gets instanced once.

A factory is the opposite where a new instance is always returned.

a design pattern is ... aaaa, the tag

It seems you got some people bro

A way of getting around the shortcomings of object oriented programming

@nblackburn Thank you for the explanation! I have to admit that this was for the weekly thing (your Dev nightmare in 4 words) - but I appreciate that the community is so kind on devRant! Keep being a positive influence buddy!

@qbalsdon ah dang it, fallen foul to that tag again.

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