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I think we're in this world I'd like to call guardrail programming. It's really sad. We're like "I can make change because I have tests". Who does that? Who dri
by talles 11y ago
I think we're in this world I'd like to call guardrail programming. It's really sad. We're like "I can make change because I have tests". Who does that? Who drives their car around banging against the guardrail saying, "Whoa! I'm glad I've got these guardrails because I'd never make it to the show on time".
Gotta love Hickey.
- catnaroek 11y agoA very apt analogy for the red-green-refactor cycle. I previously called it “flailing around” [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180589 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11180589], but “guardrail programming” is better and catchier.
- jerf 11y agoWho drives their car through an n-dimensional manifold full of Turing chaos? When programming is as easy and as safe as navigating an essentially 2-D Euclidean space, let me know.
- striking 11y agoDo I have the language for you. https://scratch.mit.edu/ https://scratch.mit.edu/ You can make compelling interactive things probably without even making a loop. I think that's the closest we're going to get, at least.