Strong Typing is for People With Weak Memories

I’m an “old guy” in the software world, old enough to have had to enter code on punch cards and be forced to debug assembly by flipping through a 12-inch-thick fan-fold printout. In my first real job at IBM, one of the programmers I worked with…

Quick Thoughts on React (virtual DOM)

I was thinking about how I’d answer one of our interview questions: “What are the benefits of React?” I feel like most of the usual answers here are not relevant.

• “React allows rendering to be pure functions” — true, but is this really a…