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When do leaky abstractions become Niagra Falls?
by bprater 18y ago
When do leaky abstractions become Niagra Falls?
- Hexstream 18y agoIndeed, I completely abandonned the idea of abstracting HTML/CSS/Javascript away completely by building a higher-level language on top. The problem with trying to do that is that you have an unsolvable Ease-of-Use VS Completeness problem. If you want your code to be easier to write you'll have to shun some features (ex: html attributes) and that will come to bite you in the ass later. But if you support everything HTML does then you end up with... HTML!