Hands-On Design Patterns and Best Practices with Julia

Foreword

Design patterns are the negative space of a programming language. They are the techniques that programmers come up with to effectively leverage a language's strengths and compensate for its weaknesses. We all use them whether we mean to or not. The classic Gang of Four Design Patterns book took existing patterns that were already being used in the wild and catalogued and classified them. Perhaps even more importantly, it gave them names so that programmers could refer to common patterns easily and immediately understand each other. It gave programmers a lingua franca for the tools of their trade.

Whereas classic design pattern books have focused almost exclusively on patterns themselves, assuming language proficiency as a given, ...