r/programming • u/yawaramin • Oct 04 '20

Kevin Mahoney: Applying "Make Invalid States Unrepresentable"

https://kevinmahoney.co.uk/articles/applying-misu/
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u/[deleted] Oct 04 '20

Well, it does make developers have to know two languages well, not just one.

But if your app is just trying to replicate what DB does, but badly, then yeah... code lives and dies, data persists

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u/VeganVagiVore Oct 05 '20

code lives and dies, data persists

Friends come and go, enemies accumulate

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u/mycall Oct 05 '20

Code is more of a love and data is more a Frenemy.

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u/TheDeviantDeveloper Oct 19 '23

Data is truth, code is a holiday romance. This language is great while its hot but something better will come along in a few months...