I agree that the idea of "simplicity" can become convoluted. But some of his specific examples I strongly disagree with. Like others are saying, it comes a lot

I agree that the idea of "simplicity" can become convoluted. But some of his specific examples I strongly disagree with. Like others are saying, it comes a lot from your worldview on programming. Coming from someone who was involved in an extreme Microsoft Stack (which I definitely get from the vibe of the writer here, either that or Java?) and gone away from that, I can say simplicity wins. It really just depends on how simple the given language allows you to be, and what that looks like. In my personal opinion the Microsoft Stack really traps you in a box. Not a bad stack, but you can't really translate the "patterns" you have to use there into a lot of other stacks.