The worst kind of accidental complexity in software is the unnecessary distribution, replication, or restructuring of state, both in space and time.
The worst kind of accidental complexity in software is the unnecessary distribution, replication, or restructuring of state, both in space and time.
I think they just had some bad experiences with bad software and generalized it. If you just glue together separate components with separate data and configuration then you’re going to have a bad day.