The simplicity of organic code growth has a flip side: it becomes too hard to maintain. The proliferation of dicts as primary data structures is a clear signal of tech debt in your code. Fortunately, modern Python provides many viable alternatives to plain dicts.
Source: Don't let dicts spoil your code, an article by Roman Imankulov.
Fanning is a handwave-y term for ‘taking a lot of stuff, using it in a variety of different places, and consolidating it all back to one place.’
Source: Go Patterns - Fanning, an article by Sean Hinchee.
I’m announcing a small utility Haskell package I created that can wrap arbitrary
Map-like types to provideApplicativeandAlternativeinstances.
Source: defaultable-map: An Applicative wrapper for Maps, an article by Gabriella Gonzalez.