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Easy things work until you have to extend them or do anything the least bit complicated. Think of SQL or most "easy" declarative APIs. Or even worse, ORM engine
by jackblemming 5y ago
Easy things work until you have to extend them or do anything the least bit complicated. Think of SQL or most "easy" declarative APIs. Or even worse, ORM engines. Simple things are normally also easy to use, but you may have to write some more boilerplate and there's less "magic".
Steve wrote a simple CRUD API that gets some data and returns it. Bob tried to be clever and write a loosly typed declarative cluster fuck that nobody understands, but it's "easy" if you dont do anything interesting or useful with it.
- raducu 5y agoA bit like haiku, wonderful when you read it, extremely hard to maintain conversations in haiku. Or like an improv exercise where you have to improvise a dialogue, but only by using questions, no afirmations. Can it be done? Sure, but not by most people, not in real time. Again, wonderful when you see it done right.
- Planktonne 5y agoTalking in haiku: Wonderful when you read it. Too hard to maintain. Improvisation. A constrained dialogue. Affirm? No. Question. Can it be done? Sure. Most people struggle slowly. When right? Wonderful.