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scale of complexity


That's a tempting answer. I see why you proffer it. But I have to say no.

Complexity is neither an immanent feature nor inevitability. Behind unruly complexity is our failure to manage it. And indeed, a love of complexity, a fetish for it that seduces us into ever more.

To defeat complexity we have to embrace, and engage with it. We have to see what parts of technology that got us to where we are, must now be justifiably rejected.

All I see right now, especially with regards to "AI" and the new wave of techno-populism, is a retreat from complexity and more embrace of "magic".


modules just do it better


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I don’t own lunch money so it’s just a user’s opinion. But your cynicism has added real value to this thread. Thanks!


simply because your wage will not keep up with inflation and would force most people to take a second job


it's catalá in catalá


It's actually "català" not "catalá". Source: I'm català.


diversity is good


you can accomplish that with just modules and functions


I'd say that all that (modern style) OOP does for organizing code comes from its copying earlier module systems. There is really nothing else there.


so it's just the "drag & drop .jar file into production" reinvented


it's called resume-driven development


he promoted the very same policies that lead to him being murdered


You broke the site guidelines badly with this comment. We ban accounts that do that. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and stick to the rules when posting here, we'd appreciate it. Note particularly the one about ideological battle.

Separately from that, you also broke the intended topic of this thread (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35457341), I'm going to move the post to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35448899 now.


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