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Occured to me that sometimes, simple enough is not good enough for us programmers. It seems that sometimes we might actually enjoy grappling with complex, even byzantine systems. Can anyone relate? I'm not saying this is a thing, not even for myself...but I suspect it might be, possible.
Some examples where I've encountered this possibility of things being perhaps more complicated than they need to be: ReactJS, Azure templates (and infra as code/config in general).
Could it be there's something satisfying that we need about working with complex systems? Do we "like the complexity" so much that we actually, sometimes, make more complexity than we need to, because that's more enjoyable?
Or is this shower-type thought safe to chuck in the receptacle of non-sensical but good sounding ideas (and other trendy intellectualism)?
edit: Not to side-track into naming, but just for those who might get stuck on terminology I use programmer here interchangeably with software engineer or developer (I know there might be differences, tho honestly not too sure what they are) - but basically those of us who work in this industry and produce code.
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Some examples where I've encountered this possibility of things being perhaps more complicated than they need to be: ReactJS, Azure templates (and infra as code/config in general).
Could it be there's something satisfying that we need about working with complex systems? Do we "like the complexity" so much that we actually, sometimes, make more complexity than we need to, because that's more enjoyable?
Or is this shower-type thought safe to chuck in the receptacle of non-sensical but good sounding ideas (and other trendy intellectualism)?
edit: Not to side-track into naming, but just for those who might get stuck on terminology I use programmer here interchangeably with software engineer or developer (I know there might be differences, tho honestly not too sure what they are) - but basically those of us who work in this industry and produce code.
Comments URL: Ask HN: Do programmers generally enjoy some amount of complexity? | Hacker News
Points: 24
# Comments: 41
Continue reading...