Three Developer Articles that Interested Me This Week — 08/01/2022

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Manage morale, not metrics, for more effective engineering teams

Another post that I wish I had written. I learned in the military that morale is everything and that you can lower morale by relying too much on metrics. I firmly believe that if you take care of your people and work to keep morale high, the rest will take care of itself.

Intro to Passwordless

Passwords are growing more and more archaic and dysfunctional. How can we move to a passwordless world? Anna Pobletts of Passage tells us. (Full disclosure: This is a shameless plug. I’m the Dev Advocate at Passage, so, yes, I want you to try it.)

Google Launches Carbon, an Experimental Replacement for C++

I find this very interesting. C/C++ has been around for decades, and the notion that something will replace it seems fanciful to me. I guess Google felt like C++ wasn’t moving fast enough. That’s fair, I suppose. It does seem like Rust would do the same thing.