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I read this article but am having a hard time understanding the point in concrete terms. What does it mean to make invisible glue code first class? How would
by fierro 5y ago
I read this article but am having a hard time understanding the point in concrete terms. What does it mean to make invisible glue code first class? How would reduce the #LOC, which is something the author mentioned many times?
- brabel 5y agoGlue code is almost always uninteresting, incidental, boilerplate. But as the author points out, it makes up for the large majority of a code base because it grows quadratically with the number of components that need to be glued together. A powerful language to describe what needs to connect to what (similar to the Unix pipe) could perhaps make the glue code much more obvious and concise. Whether that's achievable is the question the author is asking, and apparently trying to answer.