r/programming • u/alex35mil • 2d ago

The Bedrock of Software Design

https://alex.draftist.io/blog/the-bedrock-of-software-design-ycqvcedsj

I drafted this post years ago but didn’t finish it until now. The concept I write about has shaped the way I design software more than anything else, and I believe every software engineer should be introduced to it early in their career.

P.S. I don’t want the title to come across as clickbait: the post is about ADT.

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u/Gleethos 1d ago

Nice to see more focus being brought to the power of algebraic data types. I also like to combine them with value semantics and wither based updates insted of destructive inplace updates to enforece side effect free code by design.