On Importance of Naming in Programming | Wasp

A name has gravity to it. When you give an idea a name, other ideas and examples in its gravitational field begin to accrete around it, making the idea stronger and richer, giving the idea its own life apart from yourself.

When you name an idea of your own creation, you release that idea into the world with its own force of gravity. A name anchors an idea in its own place in a listener’s mind, and pulls other, related ideas and stories towards it. When this happens, the idea can grow and evolve organically in the minds of new readers, taking on a life of its own, sha... See more

Write about the most interesting problem in your domain. Problems are inherently more attractive than solutions. Inherently more timeless.

The reason I think this is that the hard part of coding has always been humans getting clear on how they want a thing to work and then presenting this to a machine for execution. This is why we write code in programming language rather than natural language; programming language is an extension of formal logic and lets humans express with exactitud... See more