Jerod is joined by Yehonathan Sharvit, author of Data-Oriented Programming, to discuss the virtues of treating data as a first-class citizen in our applications and the four principles that make it possible.

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Featuring:

• Yehonathan Sharvit – Twitter, GitHub, Website
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Show Notes:

• 📘 Data-Oriented Programming
• of-dop.html">Principles of Data-Oriented Programming
• link.html">The history of DOP

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Timestamps:

(00:00) - This week on The Changelog(00:46) - Sponsor: Square(01:40) - Start the show!(06:05) - Jerod was tricked(16:09) - Principle 2(24:47) - Straight to principle 4(29:40) - Defer typing(36:18) - Don't talk to me about GraphQL(38:01) - Sponsor: Sentry(38:41) - Loop back to principle 3(42:50) - You've convinced me, now what?(51:46) - Data-oriented community?(53:48) - Closing out the show(54:55) - Outro