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by smallnamespace 2350 days ago
One person’s bedrock is another person’s pile of anachronisms, cruft, and poorly designed abstractions held together with duct tape.
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Bedrock in this sense is small tools that you either build on or you don’t.

What you’re describing is different:

“Abstractions” are by definition unnecessary, they are imaginary things which imperfectly model of some real things underneath. They are contrasted with control systems, which strive to manipulate those things without any metaphor.

“Cruft” is items which you don’t need that are bundled with items you do need. It is contrasted with tools that are easy to just not use at all.

I don’t know what anachronism means in this context.

I’m not saying it’s easy to make tools that are neither abstract, nor bundled with unrelated things. Just that it is a place you can aim for.

I disagree with your notion that abstractions and cruft are inevitable. They’re not inevitable, they are encouraged in the present development climate.