This article is amazing. I think any engineer outside of programming language builders would get something incredibly useful for it.
Not enough engineers engage with the concept of code and programming and as an industry we suffer for it. The beginning of this post does a phenomenal job of simplifying very basic but high level concepts as “what is a function” “what is a tag”.
99% or programmers don’t think about these things like this, and so get confused when these building blocks are manipulated and presented in seemingly strange ways like React components or server components or whatever. By breaking down these concepts (functions, blueprints) and having rebuilding them with simple definitions it allows the reader to start their mental model fresh and go from there.
This is a masterclass in technical communication.
Who gives a shit if it’s long. In fact I’m glad it’s long because every sentence is gold. These are deep subjects and foundational to programming and so ya, talking about them like this can take a few words.
99% of people who take the time to really read and process this post will come away as noticeably improved developers. That kind of bang for the buck is rare!
Not enough engineers engage with the concept of code and programming and as an industry we suffer for it. The beginning of this post does a phenomenal job of simplifying very basic but high level concepts as “what is a function” “what is a tag”.
99% or programmers don’t think about these things like this, and so get confused when these building blocks are manipulated and presented in seemingly strange ways like React components or server components or whatever. By breaking down these concepts (functions, blueprints) and having rebuilding them with simple definitions it allows the reader to start their mental model fresh and go from there.
This is a masterclass in technical communication.
Who gives a shit if it’s long. In fact I’m glad it’s long because every sentence is gold. These are deep subjects and foundational to programming and so ya, talking about them like this can take a few words.
99% of people who take the time to really read and process this post will come away as noticeably improved developers. That kind of bang for the buck is rare!