François CholletVerified account

The lower down the stack a technology is, the more important it is that its interface be highly stable (so as not to invalidate all the layers built on top whenever things change) and its behaviors simple and consistent (so as not to create leaky abstractions).

A foundational technology should do as little as possible, but in the most general way possible.

what are some good examples of this in your opinion? This was how I felt about LISP when I learned it at Uni & while there’s trade-offs, it helped me gain a more intuitive understanding of how to think about each layer of abstraction & the interfaces between them

Git would be a good example.