Software Design for the Soul
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The talk argues that much software work is maintenance and "hacky" tinkering, especially in IoT, and that object-oriented programming (mutable state, inheritance, uneven abstraction) contributes to brittle, hard-to-reason-about systems. It recommends moving toward systematic construction of correct software using functional programming practices—immutable data structures, uniform abstraction and deliberate data modeling—to produce more robust domain models.
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chapters (6)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:46Detecting soulless code
- 12:26OOP and its limits
- 27:01Code and communication
- 39:41Functional modeling in practice
- 48:28Summary
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