Three Development Articles That Interested Me This Week — 2/07/2022

Every Monday, I post three things from the world of software development that interest me or otherwise catch my attention.

Pay attention to WebAssembly

I’ve been saying for years that Javascript is to the browser what ASM is to the Intel chip. Maybe I have to update that to say WebAssembly instead. We shall see. I love Typescript, and I don’t see any reason why Typescript couldn’t compile to WebAssembly as well as Javascript. Anyway, it’s a terrific article.

There’s No Such Thing as Clean Code

Steve makes a good point here. “Clean Code” doesn’t mean much. (And for the record, I never thought that “Clean Code” by Robert Martin was all that great of a book. Don’t @ me…) And remember, kids — coding is a team sport.

The monorepo approach to code management

Sometimes it seems like there are as many ways to manage source code as there are development teams. I need to give the whole monorepo thing some more thought as I’m not totally convinced, but it’s interesting nonetheless.