Builder Pattern / Boilerplate
Kind: tension
Record: tension:boilerplate-builder-pattern
Canonical: Schema
"builder-pattern" (design-patterns-core layer) is traded against "Boilerplate" (structural-core layer) — a principle cannot be scope-separated from a quality, metric, or cost it competes with; resolve by measuring "Boilerplate" and choosing an explicit operating point.
Listed in Tensions, after Abstract Factory Pattern / Boilerplate and before Prototype Pattern / Copy Semantics.