An insightful post. I had similar thoughts when “Simple Made Easy” first made the rounds, but this post argues the point much better than I ever could.
“Simple tools do not necessarily do better at helping users manage complexity than more complex tools” t.co/0iCZizuxmP
“Simple tools do not necessarily do better at helping users manage complexity than more complex tools” t.co/0iCZizuxmP
It is probably something that’s best discussed with concrete examples. Here’s one from lobste.rs/s/zgwr6f/super…
My take us actually the opposite; I think it’s a good thing that JavaScript now has proper classes, rather than many different slightly incompatible implementations of the same concept.
See also mobile.twitter.com/dubroy/status/…
Patrick Dubroy
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Mar 6
It's often said that programming languages should have "a small set of orthogonal primitives" but I wonder if there's any empirical basis for this?
https://twitter.com/dubroy/status/1545415168187850752 ∙ Archived on 2025-03-28.