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.

the approach of separating complexity into simpler/leaner *programs* can be considered harmful (see vswhere), but do you disagree with the general notion of dividing problems into components and simplifying each of them? [2/]

I think dividing problems into subproblems is important and is the main way things get done when programming. But I think what gets taught in school these days is almost always overdividing, heavily.