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- Oct 2020
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One of the primary tasks of engineers is to minimize complexity. JSX changes such a fundamental part (syntax and semantics of the language) that the complexity bubbles up to everything it touches. Pretty much every pipeline tool I've had to work with has become far more complex than necessary because of JSX. It affects AST parsers, it affects linters, it affects code coverage, it affects build systems. That tons and tons of additional code that I now need to wade through and mentally parse and ignore whenever I need to debug or want to contribute to a library that adds JSX support.
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- primary task/job/responsibility
- engineers
- syntax
- implementation complexity
- the cost of changing something
- infectious problem
- high-cost changes
- avoid complexity
- semantics (of programming language)
- for-reaching consequences
- fundamental
- complexity
- engineering (general)
- mental bandwidth
- unintended consequence
- mentally filter/ignore
- can't keep entire system in your mind at once (software development) (scope too large)
- too complicated
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