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Software Simplicity

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Software Simplicity.md

• Simplicity !== Easy
• Easy is short term and can sometimes even introduce complexity
• Simplicity allows for easy while avoiding complexity
• Complect == tangling/braiding together
• Complexity is the result of something that has been complected
• Untangle complected code (e.g. decoupling of components)
• Do not chain calls (i.e. Law of Demeter)
• Consider Channels as form of asynchronous flow control
• Ask yourself all the time: “can this thing be moved? does it have well defined boundaries?”