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A comment on Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Programming seems harder. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Prog... by clnq on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @01:00PM (#34328812)
> I agree that web development is complex. I disagree that abstraction layers add complexity. Abstraction layers solve problems.

True, until there's a bug in abstraction level 6 caused by an upstream change in proprietary abstraction level 3 that's been patched in abstraction level 8, but not for your specific case. Then it becomes complex.

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Re:Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Prog... by mmcnl on Tuesday January 10, 2023 @03:46PM (#34331228)
Yes, but in my experience this doesn't actually happen that often as long as you don't rely on external dependencies too much. This happens in any ecosystem btw.
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Re:Ask HN: I'm 40 and feel my mental ability declining. Prog... by mgkimsal on Wednesday January 11, 2023 @11:06AM (#34339952)
> as long as you don't rely on external dependencies too much. This happens in any ecosystem btw.

I can't think of many 'modern' projects in the web world that do not rely heavily on an often very large number of external dependencies.

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