On: Testing Without Mocks: A Pattern Language

[hinkley]

Pure functions are great for testing. I keep iterating back to mostly functional cores.

[pharmakom → hinkley]

Defunctionalisation is the most powerful design pattern I have found for business backend programming.

[zjdev → pharmakom]

What does this term mean? Google is telling me something that relates to higher order functions but I don't think that is what you are referring to here.

[pharmakom → zjdev]

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22525038