{"id":1470,"date":"2011-08-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wwwneu.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/08\/16\/1410\/"},"modified":"2011-08-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-15T22:00:00","slug":"1410","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/weblog\/archives\/2011\/08\/16\/1410\/","title":{"rendered":"Features have a cost (from JavaScript: The Good Parts)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.crockford.com\/\">Douglas Crockford<\/a> in his book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0596517742\/wrrrldwideweb\">JavaScript: The Good Parts<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>&#8222;Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. The more features there are, the more likely one will develop problems or will interact badly with another. In software systems, there is a storage cost, which was becoming negligible, but in mobile applications is becoming significant again. There are ascending performance costs because Moore&#8217;s Law doesnt&#8216; apply to batteries. Features have a documentation cost. Every feature adds pages to the manual, increasing training costs.&#8220;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Douglas Crockford in his book JavaScript: The Good Parts: &#8222;Features have a specification cost, a design cost, and a development cost. There is a testing cost and a reliability cost. The more features there are, the more likely one will develop problems or will interact badly with another. In software systems, there is a storage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weblog"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1470\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.strehle.de\/tim\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}