A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a simple, single C++ server

Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by erik_seaberg on Monday December 30, 2019 @10:36PM (#21918748)

I'm all in favor of concise and expressive languages (even weird ones). I hate being slowed down by the language itself. But writing the first thing that comes into my head leads me to reinventing the wheel a lot, and (at least at work) we have a responsibility to find reusable abstractions and only create new code that's needed.

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Re:A lot of complex “scalable” systems can be done with a si... by kick on Monday December 30, 2019 @11:17PM (#21918912)

I disagree with that. If your code base is small enough, a few redundant lines (idioms) don't matter.

To bring up k again, the language has already done about the maximum amount of abstraction possible. There's really no room for the programmer to make reusable abstractions; any useful ones have already been made. That allows you to do very useful things in very small amounts of code. Picking a random example, here's a complete Sudoku solver in 75 bytes:

http://nsl.com/k/sudoku/aw3.k

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