As We May Code
Mattt Thompson,
NSHipster,
Jul 23, 2020
This post offers a more technical look at many of themes we've explored here in recent months, and especially the idea of the data-driven web, linked documentation, and automated software design, though it draws more from the semantic web than I would (quoted):
- Representation: Software components should be represented by a common, language-agnostic data format.
- Addressability: Packages, modules, and their constituent APIs should each have a unique URL identifier.
- Decentralization: Information should be distributed across a federated network of data sources, which can cross-reference one another by URL.
The difference between my view and this view is that I collapse the first two of these into one point: there is no representation, and so addressability is essentially content-based, not name-based. This, essentially, is also the difference between connectivist and constructivist approaches.
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