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The principles of data-oriented programming (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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Is It Better to Represent Data With Generic Data Structures?

Why is it beneficial to just be at pass around generic things if we have the capability of building specific things? Why use a map or a list? Those are kind of the two main ones, right? Lists of things and then like dictionaries of things. And you could more richly represent them as what the world wants to see them as necessarily.

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