Plugin Oriented Programming A New Way to Scale Development

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Claim: making every component a plugin scales maintainability. Implementation: a Python runtime called pop with a hierarchical hub and plugin subsystems, a project generator pop seed, and a builder pop build that wraps PyInstaller to produce single binaries (~20MB today, aiming 7–10MB). Evidence: ~50 active contributors and POP-based services running in production across thousands of datacenters; features demonstrated include unified config loading, app merging for seamless composition, and working deployments of merged applications.

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1. 0:00Intro
2. 1:12Augmented plugin oriented programming
3. 2:00Plugin oriented programming adoption
4. 2:50History of programming paradigms
5. 7:16Problems with objectoriented programming
6. 12:27PluginOriented Programming
7. 14:27UNIX Philosophy
8. 20:14Creating a Plugin Oriented Project
9. 22:13Running the Plugin Oriented Project
10. 26:48The Hierarchical Model
11. 29:32The Configuration Loading Problem
12. 34:30Pop Build
13. 40:02Additional Projects

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