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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edo
Please stop glorifying what's unnecessarily complicated. I've heard countless times people brag about how long it takes people to understand what they work on. In my perfect world, it would be the opposite. You would brag about how quickly people can understand what you wrote.
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Wes 🇵🇸
@weskerfoot
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@sarah_edo
How do you differentiate simple as in minimalism (few parts, no hidden complexity) vs simple as in abstracted (easy to understand but hard to recreate)? I find myself preferring minimalism over heavy abstraction in many cases (but not all).
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Sarah Drasner
@sarah_edo
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@weskerfoot
Good question. What I would say here is: I would never brag that someone can't understand my code. It's true that to different people "simplicity" can mean different things. For personal preference, if something is abstracted I would like a way to reach behind that abstraction.
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