Uncle Bob did it again. Some months ago he wrote Type Wars, a post to defend static type systems are not really needed if you do TDD. Now he’s back. In his latest post, The Dark Path (I know: these...

This week I tweeted a fragment of code showing how to declare an algebraic type to enumerate the operating systems supported by your application in Scala. Surprisingly, there was some negative repl...

Yesterday Uncle Bob posted an article about Type Wars. In summary, the post describes his own experience with different type systems across the times. How types appeared in the mainstream languages...

Some weeks ago I gave a introductory talk of Scala for Java programmers. At some point I introduced algebraical data types in Scala using sealed traits, and I though it was a nice moment to show ho...

In a blog titled Type Inference, it’s mandatory to talk about type inference. For some time, I assumed the concept should be well known for any programmer. That’s why I thought I was a great name f...

Any good programmer is familiarized with design patterns. Even not-so-good ones ever heard about singleton, strategy, decorator, observer, etc. What is not so common is to find programmers who are ...

Rust is one of the most interesting things I discovered this year. After long time programming in C++, I had hundred of situations where its memory management model drove me mad. Even using smart p...