O, humans, resist your predilection to complexify

Steven Welzer
Jun 10, 2022

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When it was new the world of PC programming was simple. A couple of languages, a couple of operating systems, a couple of hardware configurations. I got into programming circa 1980 and enjoyed it for a while.

It took about ten years for over-complexification to drive me out of it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solution_stack

Sorry current state of the art:
BCHS
ELK
Ganeti
GLASS
GRANDstack
Jamstack
LAMP
LAPP
LEAP
LEMP/LNMP
LLMP
LYME and LYCE
MAMP
MARQS
MEAN
MERN
MEVN
NMP
OpenACS
PERN
PLONK
SMACK
T-REx
WAMP
WIMP
WINS
WISA
WISAV/WIPAV
XAMPP
XRX

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Steven Welzer
Steven Welzer

Written by Steven Welzer

A Green Party activist, Steve was an original co-editor of DSA’s “Ecosocialist Review.” He now serves on the Editorial Board of the New Green Horizons webzine.

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