Re:On over-engineering; finding the right balance
by jampekka on Wednesday September 11, 2024 @05:45AM
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> I've never been bitten by an interface that is too simple.
I've been bitten by strcpy. And errno. And malloc/free. And many others.
In general, simple interfaces are good interfaces, but it takes quite a bit of experience to learn what is a good simple interface.
For example not having to resort to global variables or a lot of state or a tightly coupled mess is not self evidient, but something that comes with practice, and usually the hard way. It doesn't help that many "best practices" aren't very good practices.
I've been bitten by strcpy. And errno. And malloc/free. And many others.
In general, simple interfaces are good interfaces, but it takes quite a bit of experience to learn what is a good simple interface.
For example not having to resort to global variables or a lot of state or a tightly coupled mess is not self evidient, but something that comes with practice, and usually the hard way. It doesn't help that many "best practices" aren't very good practices.