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The language itself is not the bottleneck, it's the shitty software everyone writes. Hardware is like an arms-race where it only takes a few months for the shin
by treve 8y ago
The language itself is not the bottleneck, it's the shitty software everyone writes. Hardware is like an arms-race where it only takes a few months for the shiny new generation phones are as fast as the previous gen, because app developers rapidly can't justify the cost of keeping an app speedy on old hardware. This is why your phone feels slow, not because of the hardware or language.
- srean 8y agoWirth's Law: Software get slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. Not using more hardware resources than reasonable has stopped being a thing. A large section of software writers behave as if that the only purpose of the hardware is to run the app they wrote.
- tomphoolery 8y agoWith tools like containers, the software itself behaves as if the only purpose of the hardware is to run your application. Psychologically, it makes sense for a software developer to believe this.
- srean 8y agoI don't see how that follows. The context here was applications that run on phones. I think its intellectual laziness to blame it on containers.