What Phil Hagelberg thinks about software quality
Programmer known online as technomancy; author of Leiningen, the Clojure build tool, and a maintainer of the Fennel programming language.
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2 dated positions, 2022 to 2023, in their own words. Our reading of what Phil Hagelberg has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMetaprogramming in a language creates fundamental obstacles to static analysis of its code.
Their wordsLanguages with metaprogramming tend to put up fundamental hurdles to static analysis
↗in which an escape route is discoveredtechnomancy.us 1st of 3 in this piece
- 23 months earlier
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Our readingRelying on metatables for method lookup tends to produce surprising, unpredictable behavior.
Their wordsThis is a common problem with using metatables; they can lead to surprising, unpredictable behavior.
↗in which five different paths lead to methodstechnomancy.us 1st of 2 in this piece