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Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fact, for every hour I’ve put into actua

Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fact, for every hour I’ve put into actually fiddling with Java code, I’ve invested another fighting git submodule subcommands, and now I’m staring at what feels like a thousand-meter-high Gradle rock-face." "I should count myself fortunate that I’m not building a browser-based app; I’d have to budget an even higher proportion of the time staying on top of this week’s funkiest new JS libraries and scrambling to have Wave effects before everyone has them and they’re boring." He also links to Ed Finkler’s "The Developer's Dystopian Future" [2] which was on HN a while ago and addresses the same topic. [1] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/07/17/Discouraged-Developer https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2014/07/17/Discourag... [2] https://the-pastry-box-project.net/ed-finkler/2014-july-6 https://the-pastry-box-project.net/ed-finkler/2014-july-6

_pmf_ 12y ago
From the instigator of XML, which is generally respected as beacon of simplicity, straight-forwardness and common sense[1]. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billion_laughs

Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fac­t, for ev­ery hour I’ve put in­to ac­tu­a

Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fac­t, for ev­ery hour I’ve put in­to ac­tu­a

Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fact, for every hour I’ve put into actua

Tim Bray recently wrote [1] about feeling "stuck and discouraged" by complex tooling and frameworks. Excerpt: "In fact, for every hour I’ve put into actua