These are musings related to the question what kind of libraries resist the test of time. Some of it is related to issues encountered due to Dependency Hell. Explicit dependency Let us start out by asking the question, what is an explicit dependency in your software? How should we define a dependency? The easiest way to define a dependency would be there is an explicit package reference to a library. If you can remove the package reference, does the code still work? In order to make it clear, let us def[...]

These are musings related to the question what kind of libraries resist the test of time. Some of it is related to issues encountered due to Dependency Hell. Explicit dependency Let us start out by asking the question, what is an explicit dependency in your software? How should we define a dependency? The easiest way to define a dependency would be there is an explicit package reference to a library. If you can remove the package reference, does the code still work? In order to make it clear, let us def[...]

The road towards frontend and backend separation Or at least why you should care about proxies when dealing with web applications. Around 2005 I studied computer science at Lund university. One of the professors warned us about two things: JavaScript and Sharepoint. The web programming I got aquinted with at university was mainly Java servlets and Python CGI apps. I started working at MaCom in Denmark as a system developer. The amount of JavaScript needed could easily fit in a small single file. Most o[...]

The road towards frontend and backend separation Or at least why you should care about proxies when dealing with web applications. Around 2005 I studied computer science at Lund university. One of the professors warned us about two things: JavaScript and Sharepoint. The web programming I got aquinted with at university was mainly Java servlets and Python CGI apps. I started working at MaCom in Denmark as a system developer. The amount of JavaScript needed could easily fit in a small single file. Most o[...]

Raw numbers I’ve written a simple project in F# to read puplic information from the job agency in Sweden: Number of listings Language 6964 java 6085 JavaScript 5727 C# 3929 python 3359 c++ 2600 c 1360 php 1230 golang 1151 TypeScript 589 matlab 44[...]