[OT] Why software ends up complex

[Ola Fosheim Grøstad]

On Wednesday, 16 December 2020 at 07:51:14 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Once complexity is there, nothing can be done with it, so 
> there's no problem to solve. But you can reduce complexity by 
> not having the feature in the first place, that's the difficult 
> part.

Programming languages are different. What matters most is what 
they underlying language looks like (when you remove syntactical 
sugar). If the underlying language is clean then you can always 
set up a new syntax that can be used together with the old one.