Mike Pearson
@mfpears
Reactive code saves lives. #StateAdapt, #Angular, #React, #Svelte, #SolidJS, #Qwik https://state-adapt.github.io
WHY WE'RE CONFUSED: "Imperative" Programming History 10 days of research notes on papers and blogs from 1957 to 2025, converted into a podcast by NotebookLM.
I like this syntax. If the pipeline operator could come to JS... I think it would remove some awkwardness when using RxJS with native observables.
wild. PHP is getting a pipeline operator before JS
It's spreading like a disease, not only within individual codebases, but between languages.
Good news for JavaScript and Python folks: async/await is coming to Go, so you'll feel right at home!
Qwen3-Coder: B ChatGPT o3: A
This was hilarious. For identifying imperative lines of code: DeepSeek: A- ChatGPT o1: C+ I'm just going to have to be nimble at switching between LLMs every now and then.
Imperative is WHAT you want done. Declarative is HOW you want the results. It's "what" vs. "how". Clear, and easy to remember! 🙄
Awesome changes
A week and half ago we asked you for feedback on Copilot and what we could improve in @code. Hundreds of you responded. Here is an update on what we've done since then regarding your feedback...
Cursor or Claude Code users: Are you getting better at using these tools through experience, or do your results improve mostly based on model improvements and more MCP servers or context quality?