149: Software Design with Scott Wlaschin

Three Devs and a Maybe

In this weeks episode we are lucky to have Scott Wlaschin back on the show to discuss design within software. We start off by highlighting leaky abstractions, adopted tool-chains and transpiling languages into JavaScript. From here we move on to talk about what makes ‘good code’, and how evaluating this is heavily reliant on the requirements and context you are in. Finally, we discuss how OO and FP software architectures differ, advantages of being explicit over implicit and information-hiding at API boundaries.

Show Links

• Scott Wlaschin on Twitter
• Exploring 4 Languages - Chris Krycho
• List of languages that compile to JS
• The Non-Secret Formula for Writing Better Code
• Designing with Capabilities
• A functional approach to authorization
• Constraining capabilities based on identity and role
• Using types as access tokens
• Structured programming - Wikipedia
• The Design of Everyday Things