I'm not knowledgeable to have an opinion on the article but I chuckled at this framing: > Global mutable state is bad programming style because it’s really har

I'm not knowledgeable to have an opinion on the article but I chuckled at this framing: > Global mutable state is bad programming style because it’s really hard to deal with, but to robot software the entire physical world is global mutable state, and you only get to unreliably observe it and hope your actions approximate what you wanted to achieve. Holson’s Law of Tolerable API Design also has potential: > Design your APIs for someone as smart as you, but less tolerant of stupid BS.