The good kind of simplicity is hard. I’ve seen (and built) a bunch of things that were too simple and consequently underpowered for the task at hand[1]. Then th

The good kind of simplicity is hard. I’ve seen (and built) a bunch of things that were too simple and consequently underpowered for the task at hand[1]. Then there’s the issue of, ok this thing definitely needs to be done; do we do it in this module or in that one? This is all separate from the tendency to conflate simple with what’s easy [2]. [1] <rant>poetry doesn’t understand that when I ` poetry add foo` I don’t want the latest version, I want the latest version that is compatible with the rest of my declared dependencies, especially my declared Python version</rant> [2] https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/ https://www.infoq.com/presentations/Simple-Made-Easy/