From reading the abstract, it sounds like this addresses precisely the topic of "Worse is Better" [1].
There are frequent misunderstandings of this essay -- the argument isn't as coarse as "crappy software wins", or "release early and often".
The tradeoff is: do you want a simple interface (MIT style) or a simple implementation (NJ style)? If you want a simple interface, you have to hide a bunch of complexity underneath. If you want a simple implementation, you punt on some hard things and expose it to the user.
Despite its authorship, and marketing as a better C (which is the epitome of NJ style), Go is MIT style! The concurrency model hides a lot of stuff under the covers: sync vs async syscalls, segmented stacks, etc. And GC is probably the ultimate MIT-style feature, in that the interface is very simple (just pretend you have infinite memory), but implementations are tremendously complex -- basically each GC is unique and its own research project.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
EDIT: From paging through the slides, this seems to be basically the gist of the last half, but I don't see that he mentioned "Worse is Better" or MIT vs NJ style...
There are frequent misunderstandings of this essay -- the argument isn't as coarse as "crappy software wins", or "release early and often".
The tradeoff is: do you want a simple interface (MIT style) or a simple implementation (NJ style)? If you want a simple interface, you have to hide a bunch of complexity underneath. If you want a simple implementation, you punt on some hard things and expose it to the user.
Despite its authorship, and marketing as a better C (which is the epitome of NJ style), Go is MIT style! The concurrency model hides a lot of stuff under the covers: sync vs async syscalls, segmented stacks, etc. And GC is probably the ultimate MIT-style feature, in that the interface is very simple (just pretend you have infinite memory), but implementations are tremendously complex -- basically each GC is unique and its own research project.
[1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html
EDIT: From paging through the slides, this seems to be basically the gist of the last half, but I don't see that he mentioned "Worse is Better" or MIT vs NJ style...