No I think we can look at simplicity/complexity absolutely to some degree. A compiler is a nice pure function - one array of bytes to another array of bytes. Y

No I think we can look at simplicity/complexity absolutely to some degree. A compiler is a nice pure function - one array of bytes to another array of bytes. You need to use some algorithms and data structures in there to do that, but it's fundamentally simple. A web app is fundamentally complex - asynchronicity, interacting with other services, network connections, all kinds of chaos.