From this reading Datskovskiy feels like a more radical, less poetic version of Vernor Vinge.
When he says "Even if you ... plug all abstraction leaks, the lowest-level concepts on which a system is built will ... limit the heights to which its high-level “payload” can rise." I'm reminded of the part in a Deepness in the Sky when Vinge muses on the nature of the increasingly complex and layered systems which control the ram ships and how no one was ever able to completely refactor the mess.
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From this reading Datskovskiy feels like a more radical, less poetic version of Vernor Vinge.
When he says "Even if you ... plug all abstraction leaks, the lowest-level concepts on which a system is built will ... limit the heights to which its high-level “payload” can rise." I'm reminded of the part in a Deepness in the Sky when Vinge muses on the nature of the increasingly complex and layered systems which control the ram ships and how no one was ever able to completely refactor the mess.