Thinking About Glue Code
The last few sentences of the article capture how I feel about the whole thing:<p>&gt; Programming is ultimately about gluing things together, whether they’re microservices or programming libraries. Glue isn’t some kind of computational waste; it’s what holds our systems together.  Glue development is software development.<p>Unless you&#x27;re programming in assembly, aren&#x27;t you <i>always</i> essentially writing glue code? Your language has some number of predefined assembly instructions which you can call in different ways and connect to fulfill your needs.