The patterns I know of, e.g Gamma/Beck/etc "Design Patterns" are pragmatic and useful solutions to common architectural problems.
And no, they are not "only for languages without first class support for some features", as some think. Or, actually, some of them are, others are useful regardless of language. Heck, a lot of them came from Smalltalk, a language which is expressivity wise miles ahead compared to "modern" languages like Go or Java).
That some people abuse them is not an inherent problem in them. Other people abuse macros, or gotos, or functions (the 100000 line function monstronsity) etc.
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The patterns I know of, e.g Gamma/Beck/etc "Design Patterns" are pragmatic and useful solutions to common architectural problems.
And no, they are not "only for languages without first class support for some features", as some think. Or, actually, some of them are, others are useful regardless of language. Heck, a lot of them came from Smalltalk, a language which is expressivity wise miles ahead compared to "modern" languages like Go or Java).
That some people abuse them is not an inherent problem in them. Other people abuse macros, or gotos, or functions (the 100000 line function monstronsity) etc.