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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by gwu78 on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:23PM (#13799804)
This is a real gem of a comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13571160

"petty abstractions" to assist reusability

Layer upon layer upon layer of indirection.

I want to be liberated from this mindlessness.

It is everywhere in the programming world.

Large sums of money are spent to maintain and propagate this way of thinking.

Large companies have been built upon it.

Is it possible to escape this?

These contributions from arcfide are heartening.

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Re:AMA: Explaining my 750 line compiler+runtime designed to ... by ycmbntrthrwaway on Sunday March 05, 2017 @07:28PM (#13799826)
http://suckless.org/ guys decided to give up building libraries and abstractions
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