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I know. Lets move it all that annoying complexity to yaml/json/XML config files!

Now look at this app I can write in 30 lines of code with this framework! Oh and 500 lines of yaml across 2 dozen files but look the "code" is so sleek and sexy.

Joking aside I think he could have at least mentioned the difference between required complexity and unneeded complexity. Ironically it seems to spawn from attempts to reduce the first type of required complexity in a lot of cases.



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