This talk [1] made me conclude something along these lines. You need side-effects to make anything useful, just make sure they're segregated in a specific place

This talk [1] made me conclude something along these lines. You need side-effects to make anything useful, just make sure they're segregated in a specific place in your program. This makes it easier to make most of the program pure and make it clear where the dangerous stuff happens. [1] Boundaries by Gary B. from Destroy All Software https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkzNHF6rMs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTkzNHF6rMs