Writing

Developer tools earn trust when their behavior is visible, consistent, and easy to reason about. This essay explores how those principles are shaping the Ferrum tools I’m building.

Ferrum is a family of focused developer tools that share principles without requiring shared adoption. Strong boundaries keep each project understandable, composable, and replaceable.

Building Feo has made one lesson clear: language design is less about inventing attractive syntax than creating constraints, diagnostics, and mental models that can survive growth.