Patrick Dubroy
@dubroy
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
Jul 8, 2022 · 31 · 2

It is probably something that’s best discussed with concrete examples. Here’s one from lobste.rs/s/zgwr6f/super…
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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.

Patrick Dubroy @dubroy · 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?
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