FREST Substack

ECS vs OOP is a debate that only exists because programmers forgot that the relation model dissolved the distinction between logical and physical models.

The App has had its day.

TL;DR: First-class models with branching and merging capabilities represent an almost entirely unused enormous productivity and expressiveness unlock in programming and computer systems.

Software's Original Sin Every time I hand-roll another HTML form, I die a little inside.

Coding is State Farming If you just see all the code involved in a typical business app, it is tempting to see it as a single, grand piece of computational architecture.

Regarding FREST: Why Now?

One ASPECT of FREST can be nicely separated and used on its own, to great benefit.

Today I’m announcing a brand new addition to my Substack publication: the FREST Substack subscriber chat.

My entire adult life, since I first learned to program, I felt like Neo in the Matrix: …there's something wrong with the world.

Frest is currently a software design philosophy, or you might say a “pattern”.

The style of distributed architecture described here is at the heart of the design of FREST.

Software has been in crisis since its beginning.