Category Archives: Software engineering

Posts on software engineering.

TypeScript for quality of web code

In this blog post, I shall discuss the programming language TypeScript as a way to improve the quality of web code. I shall illustrate this with a demo project on GitHub, a simple web application that visualizes Conway’s Game of Life with rules that can be chosen by the user. The web application is hosted here, in… Read More »

On testable architectures and how Java-like type systems can harm them

Generally, I’m all for static typing. After all, it make it possible to ensure aspects of program behaviour in a universal way, as opposed to unit tests, which operate on an anecdotal basis. Imagine my surprise when I realized that certain widely-used static type systems, like the ones of Java or C#, can lure programmers… Read More »