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In your view, what word(s) would you use to describe the following? "a carefully designed API for interacting with piece of data which provides both a consiste
by jasinjames 2y ago
In your view, what word(s) would you use to describe the following?
"a carefully designed API for interacting with piece of data which provides both a consistent technical interface and conceptual understanding of the meaning of said thing"
The reason I ask is because the word I've always used for that is "abstraction", but I'm getting the sense that over-abstracted and over-architected frameworks has soured many people to the word. I want to communicate the idea without conjuring up images of java classes with 90 character names. What would you recommend?
- ilrwbwrkhv 2y agoYou are absolutely right. In that sense the right abstraction is what one should go after. But what I mean is the more popular Java / OOP style abstractions like a repository which returns a builder which returns class which you new up and pass to some sort of super interface and its just such a mess. As a technology I really like the JVM and hotspot but good Lord if I have to wade through 10 different things to get there. Finally to answer your question I have started using the actual name of the thing in the language I'm using. Such as a "struct" in c and rust which I mostly use these days.