DeeKaying @ Nettle

"Software quality isn't really getting 90% code coverage, test cases for the domain, formal proofs or conforming to APIs and specs. Software quality is defined by the sustained rate of change a codebase can support through the promotion of clarity of thought and fluency of execution."

I love to create beautiful things with elegant code. I particularly like low-level optimisation for bare metal performance and systems programming, but I also enjoy high-level functional programming. I prefer a strong type system over excessive unit testing and I prefer common sense over agile development methodologies. I am mildly allergic to buzzwords. Data should be immutable. -- Ruud van Asseldonk, https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/ Sums up my feelings completely.

As some of you might know from my last post , I've recently joined LinkedIn after 4 years at Google.  LinkedIn is a Java company through and through. It's not a bad thing: it allows the company to consolidate its efforts and spend its resources wisely. The flip side is that everything assumes that Java will be around. I've spend the past month ramping up on the tooling, infrastructure and code. Coming from C++, I've been pleasantly surprised by a few things: Refactoring Support Java has a mature IDE ecosystem.  IntelliJ is an awesome IDE, *much* better than Eclipse . Even though I'm coming from the Vim / Emacs world and I'm used to high productivity editors, there are things that IDEs can do for you much faster than you can do yourself (the big one is of-course extracting, moving and renaming methods). C++ needs to get its act together and expose ASTs for C++ code. There's a dire need to write tools that can automatically refactor parts of C++ code ...