Simple elegant & minimal is subjective IMO. What absolutely shatters us is that we almost never have enduring & exposed bases. Software is endless layers of ab

Simple elegant & minimal is subjective IMO. What absolutely shatters us is that we almost never have enduring & exposed bases. Software is endless layers of abstraction reaching upwards. Very few layers expose themselves at all. So we are all strangers to most software. For software to be simple elegant & minimal, we would have to be able to deploy existing knowledge, be able to leverage the fundamentals we know. But that's not where we are, but we are all adrift: > In the past year I think I have finally come to understand the ideals of Unix: file descriptors and processes orchestrated with C. It's a beautiful idea. This is not however what we interact with.