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I wonder if it took so long because of how difficult pluralising-after-the-fact is [1]. For example, I imagine all client apps keep a list of contacts and a one
by timwis 3y ago
I wonder if it took so long because of how difficult pluralising-after-the-fact is [1]. For example, I imagine all client apps keep a list of contacts and a one-to-one public key for each contact (rather than one-to-many).
[1]: https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization https://www.swyx.io/preemptive-pluralization
- swyx 3y agohaha thanks for sharing my article!
- creamyhorror 3y agoNice article that I agree with. Some things it's just better to do preemptively just in case: pluralise and paginate. Whatsapp breaking its one-phone assumption must have been hard, but they'd managed to do a web version, so some intermediate kludgy solution was probably feasible sooner. Maybe it was de-prioritised or decided against.