Longevity Now Has a Streamlined API!

I'm very excited to announce the 0.9.0 release of longevity, which features a whole slew of API improvements that make longevity much easier to use and understand. Here are the three most significant changes:

• Shorthands are gone
• Assocs are gone
• The API for Key and KeyVal has been reworked for significant ease-of-use improvements

I'll discuss each of these changes in more detail below.

An API Design Conundrum

Over the past months, I've been working through a tricky API design problem in the longevity project. After a number of trials, I think I've finally come up with something that does not feel kludgy, and is easy for the user to understand and use. In this post, I will describe the problem I was having, and what makes it difficult. I will show some of my solutions that didn't work so well, and finally, present the solution I've landed on. It's not perfect, and never will be, so I am eager to hear any thoughts you might have on it.