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Discussion on: Why is coding so ridiculously overcomplicated?

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Matthijs

It's indeed interesting how something PHP evolved over time... I was baffled when they dropped goto in there (and given the XKCD on the documentation page I think so was everyone else...). Begs the question: why do we need all that? What's next? OOP in bash?

I do think new environments have the potential to be adopted (e.g. Go, Rust) but they're still quite close to what we're used to. I vividly remember a UX discussion on hamburger menu where the UX designer said: we can't move away from it too far or people won't get it, it'll need to evolve over time... I guess the same holds true for coding.

Still would like to know what the ideal environment is tho... there are a whole bunch of good things to be found in any language/environment that we should definitely keep around but how do we distil all that to its essence and make something new out of that?

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Eckehard

Maybe things would simply take more time to grow...

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Matthijs • Edited

yeah we can't sit still can we? as an engineer we can always see ways to improve it further... and as a PO we always want another feature... the fluidity is very much self-imposed πŸ˜ƒ