alt Hacker NewsI don't believe there is any tension at all between fast and simple software.
We can and should have both.
This is a fraud, made up by midwits to justify their leaning towers of abstraction.
I don't believe there is any tension at all between fast and simple software.
We can and should have both.
This is a fraud, made up by midwits to justify their leaning towers of abstraction.
User-facing, sure, nothing stopping us from doing "simple and fast" software. But when it comes to the code, design and architecture, "simple" is often at odds with "fast", and also "secure". Once you need something to be fast and secure, it often leads to a less simple design, because now you care about more things, it's kind of hard to avoid.