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by ctenb 584 days ago
What about it? The article isn't about leaky abstractions perse, it's about incorrect abstractions.
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From the article: "Option 3: Embrace the leakiness"

As someone who wrote more abstractions than he cared for in the very similar domain of media technology, I thinkbthis is the right approach. In an ideal world the mixer abstraction shouldn't care about the type of hardware, but that kindnof media tech is far from creating an ideal world.