Little Languages Are The Future Of Programming
tl;dr: "The idea is that as you start to find patterns in your application, you can encode them in a little language - this language would then allow you to express these patterns in a more compact manner than would be possible by other means of abstraction. Not only could this buck the trend of ever-growing applications, it would actually allow the code base to shrink during the course of development!"featured in #370
Twitter, When The Wall Came Down
- Bryan Cantrill tl;dr: "For Twitter, the wall is about to come down: the world is going to change — and it’s not going to change back. I keep wondering about “what is going to replace Twitter”, but I am increasingly of the belief that this is the wrong question, that no single thing is going to replace Twitter. That is, Twitter as an idea — a single social platform catering to all demographics and uses — will become like the evening nightly news or the morning newspaper: a relic from a bygone era."featured in #366
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We Need Young Programmers; We Need Old Programmers
- Mark Seemann tl;dr: "We need young people in the software development industry. Because of their vigour and inexperience, they'll push the envelope... We need old people because they're in a position to speak truth to the world." Mark points to the fact that older people have less to lose and "many are in the unique position to reveal truths no-one else dare speak."featured in #345
How Did REST Come To Mean The Opposite Of REST?
tl;dr: "REST must be the most broadly misused technical term in computer programming history. I can't think of anything else that comes close. Today, when someone uses the term REST, they are nearly always discussing a JSON-based API using HTTP."featured in #336
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C Isn't A Programming Language Anymore
- Aria Beingessner tl;dr: "My problem is that C was elevated to a role of prestige and power, its reign so absolute and eternal that it has completely distorted the way we speak to each other. Rust and Swift cannot simply speak their native and comfortable tongues..."featured in #300