I don't know about April Fools, but software pessimization as a trend has definitely been keeping Moore's law alive for a long time (via creating a demand for i

I don't know about April Fools, but software pessimization as a trend has definitely been keeping Moore's law alive for a long time (via creating a demand for it). Similarly to compiler pessimization, software pessimization operates on a higher level, and is implemented by the application programmer. The goal is to produce new software that does the exact same thing as old software, but uses more resources. Ponders a chat app memory/CPU usage