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Software that responds instantly to your touch or mouse clicks or keyboard feels light and helps you get things done you cant do when it is slow.

(Via Link to ‘Fast Software, the Best Software’ on Daring Fireball)

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  Fast Software, the Best Software On the benefits of performant software, and how it affects user perception of engineering quality and overall usability

An approach to organizing long-lived software projects in which data objects and abstract APIs live in the middle and external interfaces and database connections in the outer crust.

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  The Clean Architecture 13 August 2012

Ideas for extending the Java language with data classes and sealed types to get the effect of algebraic datatypes in the Haskel or SML sense.

• Data Classes and Sealed Types for Java Brian Goetz, February 2019 This document explores possible directions for data classes and sealed types in the Java Language, and is an update to Data Classes in Java. This is an exploratory document only and does not constitute a plan for any specific feature in any specific version of the Java Language.

Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.

• Introducing Hooks Hooks are a new addition in React 16.8. They let you use state and other React features without writing a class.