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by copsarebastards 3989 days ago
I think this is a good example of the law of conservation of complexity[1]. You can't reduce complexity, you can only change what's complex. In the case of monolithic kernels versus microkernels, it sounds like going to a microkernel moves the complexity from the overall design into the nuts and bolts of interprocess communication.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_conservation_of_complex...