Jonathan Blow

If someone wants to make software with the agenda of deeply simplifying the mess that we today call software, I will be happy to sponsor it:https://twitter.com/github/status/1131476921693474816 …

https://suckless.org  ? The agenda seems to be there.

I think they have generally the right idea, but it looks like they have been around for a number of years and not necessarily that much software has been made? I suspect because they are still tangled up in the complexity of unix, and why if you want to simplify things would

you pick awk as one of the few things you rewrite ... it doesn't make sense to me, because the real problem is the unix philosophy, not awk. 'st' seems alright, except the fact that it's limited to X-Windows is again a big problem (and probably drives complexity).

Looking more, I see that sbase has a lot of programs in it (it was not obvious from the page), but ... again it's just replicating the unix complexity but making it simpler. That's fine, but the real problem is the unix complexity.

Unix Philosophy was fine in the early days of Unix, but now it's 50 years later, if we don't have a better idea of how to do things by now, we must really suck. Today we see that the system has turned into a huge number of programs, most of which most people don't understand,

that are very hard to use unless you are already an expert, and that, when put together via pipes, result in buggy programs (in the same way that non-statically-typed languages like js result in buggy programs). Meanwhile we also do code sharing with libraries. Well ... why