Engineering Tradeoffs Debate
Commenters repeatedly emphasize that technical decisions in software, architectures, platforms, and designs involve inevitable tradeoffs rather than absolute better or worse options, depending on context and application.
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Yup, it's all tradeoffs, and my preferred tradeoffs won't match yours.
Because it's a set of tradeoffs and not a strict better/worse?
There is no "better"; it is a tradeoff.
It's a tradeoff to be managed depending on the application rather than a problem.
Well, everything has trade off.
Could you please elaborate on the tradeoffs?
You're acting like there are no tradeoffs for these things. There are always tradeoffs.
There's no solution, only tradeoffs.
that does not make it less about tradeoffs. perhaps even more so?
Indeed, its tradeoffs all the way down