99% of articles on this blog are in English, but this one is explicitly aimed at local, Polish community, so to lower the entry threshold for readers, I've decided to make an exception and use Polish. Sorry for inconvenience. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- To nie ja wymyśliłem Elixira w Shedulu. Stało...
> TL;DR In our everyday software development work we tend to under-valuate the meaning of type systems, their expressiveness & role they play in proper domain modeling. Due to poor reflection of true nature of data, we increase error-proneness & readiness of the codebase - all of that because...
_Disclaimer: this post is not intended to provoke or troll anyone. The idea isn't to present any language / paradigm as better or worse than any other. I have friends who prefer (& use on the daily basis) all the technologies mentioned below - I respect all of them...
Roughly 2-3 years ago, we've all experienced the popularity outburst of so-called New Wave of Functional Programming languages. As everyone was rediscovering the FP paradigm ("re-" is important here as actually there were no new concepts, just a re-visit of something well known from the past)...
You've heard about REPL [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Read%E2%80%93eval%E2%80%93print_loop], didn't you? REPL stands for Read Eval Print Loop & it's a common name for platform/language-specific shells that give you the ability to do live programming...
A short post about unreasonable usage of State pattern [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_pattern] - something I keep seeing every so often in code (regardless of language / platform). What's a State pattern? State pattern is a way to encapsulate state (& behaviour that depends upon it)...
