Cognitive Load

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Via: Cognitive Load is what matters - https://github.com/zakirullin/cognitive-load - Cognitive load is how much a developer needs to think in order to complete a task.

• When reading code, you put things like values of variables, control flow logic and call sequences into your head. The average person can hold roughly four such chunks in working memory. Once the cognitive load reaches this threshold, it becomes much harder to understand things.

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