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by mjw_byrne
835 days ago
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I tend to agree. "All nontrivial abstractions are leaky" reminds me of other slightly-too-cute rules, such as "full rewrites are a mistake" and "never parse JSON manually". I wouldn't call TCP leaky because it can't deliver data across a broken network cable, for example. It's abstracting away certain unreliable features of the network, like out of order delivery of packets. It's not abstracting away the fact that networking requires a network. |
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