TigerStyle: A Coding Philosophy Focused on Safety, Performance, and Developer Experience
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nateb2022
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Summary
TigerStyle is a coding philosophy that emphasizes three core principles: safety, performance, and developer experience. The approach prioritizes safety through defense-in-depth strategies, requiring programs to not only run correctly but also verify themselves during execution and shut down if expectations are violated. It draws inspiration from NASA's Power of Ten rules for safety-critical software development. The philosophy advocates for building software that is both robust and maintainable while ensuring optimal performance and a positive development workflow.
Key quotes
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To be safe, a program must not only run correctly. It must apply defense-in-depth and verify itself while running, to run correctly or else shut down if it detects that it has violated expectations.
TigerStyle follows the spirit of NASA's Power of Ten Rules
TigerStyle is a coding philosophy focused on safety, performance, and developer experience.
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