(On last boost) Also, if you hear any suggested solution to anything which begins "Why not just" or some variant of it, that's your guaranteed sign that they haven't thought it through properly.

@edwinb it's the third party variant of 'i will simply', isn't it?

@dysfun I will never forget, from several years ago, a PhD student of mine setting up a talk about a problem with compilation of dependent types if you did it naively, when an early question was "Why not just not compile naively?"

GOOD IDEA I WISH I'D THOUGHT OF THAT

@edwinb I reply to all such questions with "I could, but it would take years and cost millions of lives."

@pozorvlak we started using Whynotjust as a noun meaning an obvious solution that didn't stand up to a moment's scrutiny