Premature optimization is the root of all evil. Donald Knuth
Do one thing and do one thing well
“All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.” https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/
“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.” Bjarne Stroustrup