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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by ssalazar on Monday September 02, 2019 @11:47PM (#20863576)
> The amount of languages, libraries and APIs we have to regularly deal with

Is this because this Web programming innately needs lots of tools, etc. to work, or because the modern programming ecosystem (including stack overflow) has allowed it to grow to be this way?

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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by yoz-y on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @12:44AM (#20863745)
I would say a little bit of both. Since modern networked programming is much more complex than before (having to care about security, distributed storage, systems, worldwide connectivity over vast range of devices etc.) it has more moving parts and thus more combinations of various systems possible. Naturally complexity grows exponentially.
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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by falcor84 on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @02:56AM (#20864208)
>...complexity grows exponentially

Just to nitpick a bit, I would say that complexity grows quadratically - proportionally to the number of potential interactions between subcomponents.

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Re:Tired of Stack Overflow by bonoboTP on Tuesday September 03, 2019 @11:35AM (#20867570)
There can be interactions among more than 2 components as well that cannot be explained just by the pairwise interactions. The number of all subsets grows exponentially.
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