canpolat

canpolat, 3 months ago

I mainly develop in C#, and I agree that having to write so much boiler plate for type safety is really boring. C# is not perfect either (it doesn’t have discriminated unions, etc.) but at least it gives type safety out of the box.

However, in general, I think enums are widely misused. I see a lot of cases where they should have been classes with a factory, but ended up being enums with a lot of static functions and switch statements.

canpolat, 3 months ago

Looks cool, but I think there may be two problems with this approach:

1. Having traces for all methods with all parameters would be a problem for sensitive data.
2. He doesn’t mention performance impacts, but I suspect this would impact performance.

canpolat, 3 months ago

Because it is about a not-very-well-known feature of the language. Why would it matter that it’s old? I don’t think I have ever seen this in use in production code.

canpolat, 3 months ago

Who is this particular developer

As far as I understand from the discussions about the topic, Maxim Dounin was one of the few core developers of nginx. Looks like Wikipedia has already been updated.