> There are some things that are sealed abstractions (that is, they are not leaky)... Some examples include: Lossless compression algorithms, TCP/IP, TLS PostgreSQL
Man oh man do I disagree about every one of those being a "non-leaky" abstraction. If I had a dime for every time I've had to dig under the hood in one of those... I'd have about 20 dimes
> There are some things that are sealed abstractions (that is, they are not leaky)... Some examples include: Lossless compression algorithms, TCP/IP, TLS PostgreSQL
Man oh man do I disagree about every one of those being a "non-leaky" abstraction. If I had a dime for every time I've had to dig under the hood in one of those... I'd have about 20 dimes