Minimalism in Programming: How Complexity Harms Your Productivity

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Turning on just some of the JS caused my browser to pull in 5.8MB. This is just a text article. Where is the minimalism?

They left it somewhere on Gopher.

I am at this point considering charging web sites for my compute.

> I am at this point considering charging web sites for my compute.

Oh man, if only! That would be sweet. A sort of "IE 7 tax" like system, but in reverse: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18440979

Minimalism and low complexity if you are just learning to program: start with "programming from the ground up" and move onto "learning forth".