I knew I was definitely going to watch this one, from just the title. It turns out that he comes across a bit annoying due to attitude; nonetheless, the talk is definitely worth watching.
2022-05-23
Bret Victor - Inventing on Principle
Interestingly enough, in his code snippets he is using JavaScript, whereas one of my personal guiding principles is thou shalt not suffer an error to go undetected, which means that no scripting language should be used under any circumstances, for anything at all, by anyone, anywhere, ever. But I digress. Excellent presentation.
2022-05-02
Bathyscaphe
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The Bathyscaphe logo, a line drawing of
bathyscaphe Trieste
by Mike Nakis, based on art found at
bertrandpiccard.com
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Abstract
This article introduces Bathyscaphe, an open-source java library that you can use to assert that your objects are immutable and/or thread-safe.
The problem
Programmers all over the world are embracing immutability more and more; however, mutation is still a thing, and in all likelihood will continue being a thing for as long as there will be programmers. In a world where both mutable and immutable objects exist side by side, there is often a need to ascertain that an object is of the immutable variety before proceeding to use it for certain purposes. For example, when an object is used as a key in a hash map, it better be immutable, or else the hash code of the key may change, causing the map to severely malfunction.
Furthermore, when an object is not immutable, there is often the need to ascertain that it is at least thread-safe before sharing it between threads, otherwise there will be race conditions, with catastrophic results.
Note that when any of the above goes wrong, it tends to be a bug which is very difficult to troubleshoot.
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