AFAICT its very rare to find developers with that unique ability to write truly minimalist code. Too true. I find that the gating factor for development for me

AFAICT its very rare to find developers with that unique ability to write truly minimalist code. Too true. I find that the gating factor for development for me is the number of things I have to keep in my head at one time while working with a codebase. So simpler and cleaner abstractions mean that development goes faster with a lower defect rate. Maybe it's because I do have a background in music that I prefer to write minimalist code but I think there are a lot of objective advantages in it.