[j_barbossa]

I really hate when fellow devs say things are "simple" like Casey Muratori said in the first place. Nothing is simple in the software (and hardware) world! If something seems simple then most likely because smart people have written libraries for you that abstract the hard part away.

It also shows a certain arrogance to call a topic "simple", because it is supposed to show the audience that you are an incredible expert in the field.

[sussmannbaka]

the solution to the problem is simple and thus widely used in prior art. the person in question has written such a library (well, a reference implementation). the person in question is an expert in the field.

[gimme_treefiddy]

Maybe I’m nitpicking since it’s OSS, but sometimes it’s not even the code. From the outside it seems like a few lines of code but internally there’s a whole org and OKRs and what not.

[deelly]

Agree. Sometime I really struggle to see a difference between Reddit and HN.

[bena]

HN doesn't have sub-reddits