Comment on Left to Right Programming
squaresinger@lemmy.world 2 weeks agoFair, I missed one word. You missed the whole blog post.
It’s a big difference between writing code and writin APIs, tbh. If you write crap code that’s your problem. If you write crap APIs it’s the problem of anyone using your API.
FishFace@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
The blog post is really about language design, because you definitely should not write a
filtermethod for your custom iterable class in python; you should make it use the language’s interface’s for “being an iterable”. Language design involves APIs offered by the language, but isn’t really the purview of most people who write APIs.If a suggestion on language design would gain something at the cost of readability, anyone should be very skeptical of that.
Those things together explain why I am evaluating the post mostly in terms of readability.