Language-Agnostic Interfaces for Software Development

1 · Parker Moore · Jan. 24, 2015, 6:47 a.m.
Don’t let the title fool you, the concept here is simple: provide simple scripts in your repositories so – no matter the language or tools used – a newcomer to the code base can get started quickly and easily. This is an idea I picked up from GitHub – they use it heavily throughout the company and in their open source projects. I have expanded on this a bit and proposed it to my colleagues at VSCO. With some tweaking, we now have the following in almost all our projects my team works on: script...