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The Inner-Platform Effect

Stefan Tilkov,

A great name for a very common problem. Interestingly, it’s a problem that in my experience affects only smart developers — intelligence directed at the wrong target …

When I see systems that are so customizable it hurts, my usual joke is that you might just as well ship the all-powerful application java.exe, including its customization tool, javac.exe.