The actual answer, like always is: it depends. If you are working for a startup looking desperately for product market fit, by all means optimize for developer

The actual answer, like always is: it depends. If you are working for a startup looking desperately for product market fit, by all means optimize for developer performance! That 11% percent gain is noise if you are in the right product-market and growing accordingly. But. Give that startup some time and it's not a startup any more. That 11% sure looks tasty now! I hope we can all agree on that. Now, here's the actually interesting bit: Almost all the posts on the internet people write and/or pay attention to, revolve around startups. Startups are hip and cool! And then all the poor enterprise developers like me read that stuff and get the wrong ideas. We have entirely different problems, mostly related to moving data into other people's heads, not so much about the machine. And yet, here I am, reading HN...