> Create libraries that aim to do one thing and do it well.
This is a thing people like to repeat over and over again, but just really isn't actionable. The world is very high dimensional, it's always a judgement call what to cluster together and call "one thing". Especially in software where everything is made up and is constantly changing.
People often like to refer to things like unix tools etc as doing one thing and doing it well, but all those tools have grown a ton of command line args, and have backwards compatibility issues that prevent them from doing their job "well" in the modern era. So people write new tools or just hardcodes a ton of command line flags into aliases by default. Many default settings on unix tools are awful. Why does grep not use regex by default? Why doesn't echo support newline escapes by default? Which tools use color by default?
Reality is a mess, and it's an illusion that you can do "one thing"
This is a thing people like to repeat over and over again, but just really isn't actionable. The world is very high dimensional, it's always a judgement call what to cluster together and call "one thing". Especially in software where everything is made up and is constantly changing.
People often like to refer to things like unix tools etc as doing one thing and doing it well, but all those tools have grown a ton of command line args, and have backwards compatibility issues that prevent them from doing their job "well" in the modern era. So people write new tools or just hardcodes a ton of command line flags into aliases by default. Many default settings on unix tools are awful. Why does grep not use regex by default? Why doesn't echo support newline escapes by default? Which tools use color by default?
Reality is a mess, and it's an illusion that you can do "one thing"