slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
For years I've been trying to come up with a way to describe how each new technology/transpiler that is layered onto the Over Reactor baseline stack is pitched in a *ceteris peribus* way, but *ceteris* never stays bloody *paribus*. The new tool becomes additional cost, quickly overwhelming any value it might have added in integration complexity and maintenance.
SBS explains why people never do zero-based budgeting for the heaps of manure they accrete, one `npm i -s` at a time.