> This is the central fallacy of developer culture: that complexity is a sign of intelligence and that complex systems are superior There are two main competin

> This is the central fallacy of developer culture: that complexity is a sign of intelligence and that complex systems are superior There are two main competing fallacies in developer culture: the first one is that complexity is a good thing, the second one is that complexity can be avoided. They are both equally wrong, complexity is a curse, but that's the curse of the real world and if you try to hide that under a rug and call that “simplicity”, then everybody is gonna have a bad time. This blog post is a good dicussion on that topic: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-ride https://fasterthanli.me/articles/i-want-off-mr-golangs-wild-...