On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 15:58:38 UTC, Mengu wrote:
On Saturday, 3 October 2015 at 01:41:55 UTC, Laeeth Isharc
wrote:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKcOkWzj0_s
a little old but still relevant. talks about importance of
brevity and strong types for readability (also avoiding
boilerplate). two of the partners there committed to read
every line of code (originally because they were terrified).
very hard to code review boilerplate carefully because it is
just too dull!
(can't pay people enough!)
[...]
there's also andy smith's talk [0] at dconf 2015 on adapting D,
titled "hedge fund development case study."
[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KBhb0iWsWQ
Thanks! Funnily enough I rewatched the Jane Street talk because
of a suggestion made by John Colvin when I was talking to Andy
and him recently. It's a good talk by Andy, and I hope to build
on this with him at Codemesh next month.
The way languages actually get adopted is different from how
people who are sitting in eg the kind of enterprise environment
where they are never going to be early adopters imagine. Hence
one is much better off focusing efforts on those already
receptive (and who are looking for a solution to their pain) than
trying to convert those who are happy with what they have or
uninterested (possibly rationally so) in exploring new things.
Being able to understand the codebase is underrated I think.
