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bahbah23@lemmy.world 3 days agoWhat happens is that engineers look at a technology and say, this is too complex, I just need something simple. So they invent and/or adopt something simpler than the popular technology of the day.
But as they build more and more things using the technology, they realize that it needs more features, so those get added on. This happens over and over again to the technology with more and more features being added to it, until a new set of engineers look at it and say this is too complex, I just need something simple…
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 3 days ago
You’ve just described what is probably the most well-known xkcd comic in a somewhat long-winded fashion.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 days ago
Slightly different though.
smitten@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 day ago
Yeah, I think I’ll make a comic that covers everyone’s use case…
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 day ago
“Hey, this is exactly like a strawberry pie, if you replace the strawberry by veggies and meat, and the pie by water. It’s actually a stew.”
By all means, do whatever comparison you want, but I’ll reserve the right to disagree.
SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 2 days ago
Effectively not much, IMHO, but whatever - I think you got my gist.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 days ago
I did, but the direction is reversed. XKCD talks about how standards multiply and get more complex. This is talking about a different motivator for computing technologies, which is having a leaner, simpler alternative, that eventually gets bloated.