Oddbean

All he’s saying is, Bitcoin works because it’s relatively simple code. We don’t need every feature some dev dreams up. An army of random Bitcoin devs getting creative results in a spaghetti pile of code, eg Ethereum, and that is risky. If Bitcoin is to last hundreds of years, it needs to be kept simple.

this is the same core philosophy of #golang too and programmers in general are far too quick to make things complex, rob pike has a piece on it https://go.dev/talks/2015/simplicity-is-complicated.slide#1 i think he is wrong about what you can use it for though, just like bitcoin is small and simple letting you do Lightning, and #nostr is also extremely simple, there is logistical and psychological and neurological reasons why it is the right approach - the simplicity enables layered, domain bounded architecture which is far more robust than spaghetti with leaky interfaces