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title: "Comment by Maxi Contieri on \"Are design patterns still relevant?\" | Hashnode"
description: "Amazing Article, Mario! Eric's book is definitive a must read Many people stick to the original gang of four patterns, but we learned a lot, discovered many"
url: "https://hashnode.com/posts/are-design-patterns-still-relevant/5feb60d2017ebb59232d9e42/comment/5fec911fb2cf2458fe324afa"
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Comment [Are design patterns still relevant?](https://hashnode.com/posts/are-design-patterns-still-relevant/5feb60d2017ebb59232d9e42)

[Maxi Contieri](https://hashnode.com/@mcsee)

[Dec 30, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/are-design-patterns-still-relevant/5feb60d2017ebb59232d9e42/comment/5fec911fb2cf2458fe324afa)

Amazing Article, Mario!

Eric's book is definitive a _must read_ Many people stick to the original _gang of four_ patterns, but we learned a lot, discovered many new ones and also deprecated some.

They never updated their book for reasons beyond this article and our profession continued to evolve.

[Mario Cervera](https://hashnode.com/@macerub)

[Dec 30, 2020](https://hashnode.com/posts/are-design-patterns-still-relevant/5feb60d2017ebb59232d9e42/comment/5fec911fb2cf2458fe324afa#reply-5feca5c0b2cf2458fe324cdd)

Thanks Maxi!

Yes, you are right. A long time has passed and that's why I think it makes sense to wonder whether design patterns are still relevant.

But, in this article, I wanted to talk about benefits of the very notion of 'design pattern', not necessarily the patterns that are described in the GoF book.

I am not sure that this is clear in the article, but I do mention the DDD book and also 'Dependency Injection', which is a design pattern that is clearly not from the GoF book.