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>it's that too many developers don't really give a shit about their user's experience as long as they can save even a couple of minutes of their oh so precious
by Swarthog 10y ago
>it's that too many developers don't really give a shit about their user's experience as long as they can save even a couple of minutes of their oh so precious time.
Really? The developers' fault? Whose time are we talking about here?
The company's time? In workplace development, it's managers putting down on the development effort that goes towards optimization / performant design - and not for crazy reasons, simply because in many market conditions and applications, it looks like throwing money away on the balance sheet.
If you're talking about open source projects, any of a developers' time we get is gratis; this would be a pretty good example of looking a gift horse in the mouth.
- adwn 10y ago> [...] and not for crazy reasons, simply because in many market conditions and applications, it looks like throwing money away on the balance sheet. Would you use this argument to excuse software bugs? What about security holes and data leaks? Besides, the 80/20 rule applies, i.e., a little more effort spent on performance goes a long way towards a better user experience. > If you're talking about open source projects [...] Interestingly, this problem is less prevalent in the OSS world, because C and C++ is still very widespread there.