Josh Hansen: "In praise of abstraction: it lets you care..."

Josh Hansen @me@joshhansen.tech

Hacker-poet. Learn Something cofounder & CTO. Creator of Seattle Poetry Meetup. To me everything is craft; everything is creativity.

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Josh Hansen

@me@joshhansen.tech

In praise of abstraction: it lets you care about only what you care about.

Piling towers of Java-style inheritance hierarchies are rightly reviled these days, but abstraction itself, it's precious.

In Rust where dynamic dispatch is an opt-in feature, you see this more clearly. Just a small dose of "don't bother me about the details" goes a long way.