Designing APIs That Are Hard to Misuse
Most backend bugs don’t happen because developers are careless; they happen because APIs are easy to misuse. If an API allows the wrong thing, someone will even...
Most backend bugs don’t happen because developers are careless; they happen because APIs are easy to misuse. If an API allows the wrong thing, someone will even...
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There’s a moment when I know my code is bad. Not when tests fail. Not when something breaks. It’s when someone asks a simple question and I start explaining ins...
There's a harsh truth about software development that many engineers learn the hard way: users will break your application in ways you never imagined possible....
SafeMapX — A New Universal Pattern to Eliminate Null Checks, Ternaries & String Plumbing in C Every engineer who has worked in large C systems knows this pain:...
Article URL: https://corrode.dev/blog/defensive-programming/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46163609 Points: 11 Comments: 0...