“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or

“Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?” The JavaScript ecosystem is a good/bad example of this. Seemingly simple applications are pushing complexity to thousands of simple npm libraries. The applications become simpler but the linking and composition of 3rd party libraries gets out of control. At the core of it; abstractions reduce complexity, but only to a point...