Dave Gauer on why small programs and programming languages are appealing. Some great thoughts, no pun intended.
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@amoroso
I find one of the best parts at the end.
I find one of the best parts at the end.
...that a lot of the "big" stuff in our field are just accumulations of lots of "little" victories as individuals have solved "little" problems...
I find the same in mechanical engineering, where a lot of big advances are possible because materials have gotten a little better. And I usually underappreciate materials science for what they made possible for the rest of engineering.
@amoroso
This is another great part that applies universally:
This is another great part that applies universally:
Small things, "allow low-stakes experimentation," which is why we often build tiny models of things before we scale them up.
(Though this is exactly from the part about why it applies broader than software engineering.)
@abovearth Yes, another virtue of small is composability.
