I don't mean this in the "throws hands up in the air" frustrated sense. I think it says something genuinely incredible about building complex systems with code.https://twitter.com/generativist/status/1016308493123510272 …
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Systems designed with this pattern are robust. Like, incredibly so. Bugs often don't manifest and even when they do they aren't catastrophic because we build (or evolve) lots of very simple things easy-to-understand-and-interrogate components which communicate.
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For this reason, I get annoyed when people say "software is the most complex thing we build," at least when they want you to draw the conclusion, "programmers are masters of complexity." They're not. Good practices make it so you don't have to be!
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