Hacker News new | past | comments | ask | show | jobs | submit
In and of itself, it's usually easy to understand. But the more fluff you stuff between the nontrivial bits, the harder it is to take in all at once. I think large quantities of simple boilerplate make the overall project harder to understand and debug. Though that is in comparison to an imagined alternative that's somehow exactly the same but with all the glue removed, so maybe that's not entirely fair.