Much has been said about the failings of OOP, and how to navigate those failings. This is a think piece about closed-source and its impact on human beings. — 4 years ago, I entered the workforce as an “as-junior-as-it-gets” junior software engineer. Having just taught myself to program, I approached my new team’s Angular/.NET stack with immense curiosity and drive to learn. In the 4 years since, I’ve gotten exposure to all kinds of peers, problem-solving styles, and programming…

How to use traits to keep your code aloof, in plain english — Who is this for? Rust developers who have a some experience with the language and are curious about taking the next step in robustness Non-Rust developers who are curious about Rust patterns What will be covered? Recap of traits and their use Using traits to isolate (and substitute) dependencies Why should you care? Dependency injection allows us to write code that treats…

Who should read this article? People who are curious about Functional Programming, Declarative Programming, or want to supercharge their code! 🚀 At the end, there’s a special syntax for Javascript & Typescript that you may not be aware of (hint: I wrote a pattern-matching library @matchbook/ts) What Pattern Matching is First, the definition from Wikipedia: In computer science, pattern…