Cost of Laziness in Clojure
This is a technical post and laziness in this context means deferring execution of code. When the machine first meets the code, it may be executed there and then or it may be stored and executed later. Which of those happens depends on the instructions in the code, the computer just executes them without judgement.
First Order Thinking and Pragmatism Are Not the Same Thing
Most non-technical people think software development is a standardized, repetable process. That is why they come up with enterprise agile frameworks. If it was standardized we would not need to write software but we would generate it from specifications[1]. Every new project, every new task has a component of discovery. It requires us to think outside of the box. Therefore assembly line approach to software development produces mediocre results at best.
Presentation: Main-Loop in Clojure
I did another presentation for Singapore Clojure Meetup about building the main loop for a game (or just an interactive application) from ground up. You can find the slides here.
Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust - Part 3: Concurrency & Parallelism
This is the third post of Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust series. We will look into Rust’s concurrency support. I intend to provide a guide for the Rust language and try to keep things within the safe Rust realm. We will be looking at the concurrency primitives that are in the Rust standard library. Please keep in mind that there are popular libraries that provide other efficient and convenient concurrency primitives.
Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust - Part 2: Test Driven Development
This is the second post of Getting a Little Further Than Hello World With Rust series. We will write some Rust code with tests. In fact we will be practising Test Driven Design.
- We will start by writing a unit test and make sure it fails.
- We will write the code to make the test pass. Just enough code, nothing more.
- If there are any opportunities, We will refactor our code.
Rinse and repeat.