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		kome on Aug 24, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React you are SO right... but web developers have decided to go for complexity over simplicity and elegance. IMHO this happened just because complexity and fads generate so much more money, in the long run.

arethuza on Aug 24, 2020 [–]

It would help if there was some objective way of measuring "elegance" in software.

Some people think hammer factory factories are elegant.... ;-)

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