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I've been coding for 26 years. if I could distill my experience into one sentence it would be:

"functions and data is all you need"

don't get distracted by fancy language features. every language has functions, every language has structs. mastering programming is just composing functions and transforming data. once you master this you can program in any language.

if you focus building programs as small, pure, modular functions that operate on *only* the data it needs, then you will have a large set of functions that are highly composable. you will never have to do large rewrites of your program, because your program will compose of lego blocks that you can snap together in different ways.

gm nostr!
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Achilles 8mo ago

Functions do not matter at all. Customer outcomes do, though. Different perspective. Important difference in my humble pov 🫡

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jb55 8mo ago

being able to change your codebase quickly without introducing bugs is pretty important when it comes to customer outcomes, so in effect you do have to care even still

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Achilles 8mo ago

I agree with you. Still, outcomes > features.

A wise enterprise SaaS customer once to me: „stop talking feature fucking Dave, tell me how this is making me or saving me money I don’t care about your shit functions I need outcomes Dave! Closed a 10M deal with them the same year. No single function mentioned during demo for board. Outcomes only. Life lesson for me personally.