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Programming and Minimalism
- olliesaunders 17y agoI watched this a while ago. I already practise a lot of what he says but I know there are scores of programmers that don't. My programming improved immensely when I really starting taking minimalism seriously in an extreme way.
- olliesaunders 17y agoOne of the most interesting points he makes in this talk is about separating out what Eric Evans might refer to as supporting generics (AFAIK) from the applications to write into separate libraries and open-sourcing them. To me that's almost certainly the way for truth and good but fails to acknowledge that good libraries take a _really_ long time to write; ages. And then you have all this issue over being unable to change published interfaces because people rely on them now and dependency management etc. We need better programming languages before I'd be comfortable advocating that advice.