inflexibility

You pay a high price in complexity and inflexibility for that juicy GC-less yet safe memory management.

For one thing, the point in the FAQ regarding the inflexibility of keyword/flowchart-based testing is pretty apt.

We can't do that because of the inflexibility of the business world, but collectivism would play directly against that goal.

The inflexibility of the labor market makes it harder for those who have lost their jobs to find new ones.

If you have a design that requires certain rigidity and inflexibility, you can have your explicitly imported web fonts and be happy.

If the OP chooses Clojure, then I'd note that the Java classpath really demands you respect its inflexibility.

On the other hand, that inflexibility may be what just makes it work.

The system (tying visa to employer and procedural inflexibility in transferring it) is such that it indirectly makes the visa-holder indentured to the company 5.

And that the tension is generally expressed via fighting with abstraction -- the right or wrong abstraction, over-engineering (too much abstraction), inflexibility (not enough abstraction), etc.

It gives too much inflexibility for too little gain.

Given the inflexibility of mining rewards and the rarity of double-spends in the wild, it may well be that right now the block reward is wastefully high.

I see it as another example of inflexibility since in theory Compass could automatically give me a better rate for this much travel.

"Strong opinions, lightly held" and "intellectual humility" Passion does not equate to inflexibility.

Despite the inflexibility of RMS' arguments (they grate on me as much as anyone) I feel like his position on continuing to develop GCC without modern features like a fully exposed AST is necessary to keep the "moderate" position where it is.

"You pay a high price in complexity and inflexibility for that juicy GC-less yet safe memory management." It's a price that a lot of people are willing to pay, because of how badly they want what they're paying for.

Inflexibility is in my experience more often associated with a person than with their age.