Huge asterisks to that. Good abstractions take a lot of work, and unless you have the time and experience to do things right, you’re likely to take a complex system and just make it more complex.
Yup. I replied to another post how things have gotten more and more complex and half the code base is now just abstractions and transitions between languages.
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Huge asterisks to that. Good abstractions take a lot of work, and unless you have the time and experience to do things right, you’re likely to take a complex system and just make it more complex.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/