Abstractions don't leak?

via yosh: yes… Yes!

@tef on cohost.org: Abstraction: more than a miserable pile of secrets

abstractions don’t leak, either.

leaky abstractions are just another way of talking about “information hiding”—abstractions can share details, abstractions can partition details, but sure enough, they don’t really hide anything from the programmer.

despite people yelling “all abstractions leak detail” no-one stops to think “maybe we shouldn’t be using them to hide things in the first place.” alas

(My take, which I think largely aligns with @tef’s: An abstraction that you don’t understand will eventually bite you in the ass. It’s better perhaps to think of an abstraction as shorthand for a concept that you already understand.)

(Also: cohost. Huh. Hadn’t heard of it before.)