Speed up Ruby and JavaScript tests using static and dynamic split
When working on a larger project, you may struggle with the problem of an increasingly growing set of tests, which over time begins to perform slower on your... (more…)
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When working on a larger project, you may struggle with the problem of an increasingly growing set of tests, which over time begins to perform slower on your... (more…)
Read more »JavaScript is notorious for being “loose”, something that some developers love but other developers loathe. I hear most of those complaints from server side developers, who want string typing and syntax. While I like strict coding standards, I also like... (more…)
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Read more »JavaScript: The First 20 Years by Allen Wirfs-Brock and Brendan Eich Our HOPL paper is done and submitted to the ACM for June 2020 publication in the PACMPL (Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages) and presentation at the HOPL 4 conference when... (more…)
Read more »Most of your time as a developer is spent reading code followed by debugging that same code, most likely to be able to read it or solve an… (more…)
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