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MVC is dead, it's time to MOVE on.

MVC is a phenomenal idea. You have models, which are nice self-contained bits of state, views which are nice self-contained bits of UI, and controllers which are nice self-contained bits of …

What?

I'm certainly not the first person to notice this, but the problem with MVC as given is that you end up stuffing too much code into your controllers, because you don't know where else to put it.

To fix this I've been using a new pattern: MOVE. Models, Operations, Views, and Events.