> Simple Outperformed Smart. As a self-admitted elitist, it pains me to say this, but it’s true: the startups we audited that are now doing the best usually had an almost brazenly ‘Keep It Simple’ approach to engineering.
I wrote about this before that as an industry, we have made writing software complex for complexity's sake.
> imagine, in a world where there wasn't a concept of clean code but to write code as simply as possible. not having thousands of classes with indirection.
what if your code logic was simple functions and a bunch of if statements. not clever right, but it would work.
what if your hiring process was not optimizing for algorithm efficiency but that something simply works reliably.
imagine a world where the tooling used by software engineers wasn't fragile but simple to use and learn. oh the world would be a wonderful place, but the thing is most people don't know how to craft software. but here we're building software on a house of cards [0]
:[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166677
I wrote about this before that as an industry, we have made writing software complex for complexity's sake.
> imagine, in a world where there wasn't a concept of clean code but to write code as simply as possible. not having thousands of classes with indirection.
what if your code logic was simple functions and a bunch of if statements. not clever right, but it would work.
what if your hiring process was not optimizing for algorithm efficiency but that something simply works reliably.
imagine a world where the tooling used by software engineers wasn't fragile but simple to use and learn. oh the world would be a wonderful place, but the thing is most people don't know how to craft software. but here we're building software on a house of cards [0]
:[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30166677