This was a formative essay for me. When I look around the software industry, it's completely full of accidental complexity. Consider Kubernetes and the entire C

This was a formative essay for me. When I look around the software industry, it's completely full of accidental complexity. Consider Kubernetes and the entire Cloud Native world - how much of that is actual business logic that your customers need? None of it. The main areas of complexity I perceive today in building software are: - "infrastructure complexity" (see above) - "deployment complexity": continuous delivery and getting code into production - API complexity: using 3rd party tools used to be function calls, now they're complex distributed systems - code complexity: git, pull requests, setting up your dev environment, etc I wrote more about this here [1], but I honestly can't believe how complex it is to create software today. [1] https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/ https://blog.darklang.com/what-is-dark/