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0 pointskindfellow928y ago0 comments

My point is that “sophisticated abstractions” should reduce complexity, not increase it.

If Tokio’s abstractions are seemingly increasing complexity, maybe they aren’t sophisticated abstractions.

This is a criticism of the OP, not Tokio.

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I understood your point. As my comment alluded to, the criticisms of tokio this blog post is attempting to address have to do with the implementation complexity - abstractions do not reduce the implementation complexity of themselves.

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0 pointskindfellow928y ago0 comments

My point is that “sophisticated abstractions” should reduce complexity, not increase it.

If Tokio’s abstractions are seemingly increasing complexity, maybe they aren’t sophisticated abstractions.

This is a criticism of the OP, not Tokio.

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tatterdemalion8y ago

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