As I’ve been saying for quite some time, it is architecturally risky to depend directly on frameworks and databases without some form of isolation protecting the app. Parler just learned that the hard way.
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Back to programming in binary then, eh?
The problem is that the culture of programming correctly identified a successful pattern, but then extrapolated that pattern way past the equilibrium point, and haven't yet realized they overshot. Yes, assembly language was a good idea. So was FORTRAN/C/etc. But,
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this does not automatically justify an arbitrary number of layers of abstraction. A cost/benefit analysis must be applied to determine what really works. Most people seem unwilling or unable to do this analysis. In particular, most costs of abstraction are ignored.
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Then, benefits are always incorrectly measured. The claimed benefit of a technique is taken to be its actual benefit; people seem unwilling or unable to measure the extent to which the claimed benefit is actually achieved.
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