Friday Links: Engineering Edition
Jul 21, 2017 · 2 min read

Here are the most interesting links this week from our engineering department. Collated by Kevin Barrett and Drew Bell.
- Introducing npx: an npm package runner
“This is nice. I always forget to update packages installed globally.” (via Jeremy Mack and Nic Young) - ECMAScript Pattern Matching Syntax Proposal
“So clean. I can imagine how many arrow function bodies become match expressions.” (via Adam Pash and Zachary Golba) - And coming from the other direction, Parenthesized Syntax in Reason PR
“Really appreciate an FP language putting pragmatism over ideological purity—Reason’s current best shot at some adoption is converting React devs already introduced to immutability, pure functions, and type safety, and changes like this make a big difference in smoothing the learning curve.” (via Daniel Ramirez) - Consider the Boolean: The Challenge of Using Binary Data Structures in a Complicated World
Drew: “Like my post but 10x better!” Kevin: “I wouldn’t say ten times.” (via Drew Bell) - Building a Container Runtime in Rust
I went to go pull a quote for this link from our Slack, but somehow the first 10 messages in the thread were really really bad popcorn jokes because someone used the word kernel. So that’s how this week’s links will end: not with a pop, but with a whimper. (via Zachary Golba)
