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On the flip side, this will give software makers to keep the bloat to a minimum.
by innagadadavida 7y ago
On the flip side, this will give software makers to keep the bloat to a minimum.
- ARandomerDude 7y agoProfessional bloat-maker here. I doubt it. I want my software to be reasonably lightweight but I've literally never thought about what the user's computer upgrade path might be. As long as it runs well on anything newer than 5 years old, I'm happy. This captures enough users without requiring me to go to great pains to get the remaining, much harder hardware/software setups. People may read that and hate it, but the reality is I have deadlines to meet, demanding bosses, and a never ending queue of features and bugfixes. I suspect a lot of folks are in the same boat.
- ratww 7y agoExpanding on what the GP said, I hate Docker with a passion. I mean, I know it's useful, but at my previous job I was able to use my vintage 2GB Macbook Air after installing things with brew + rbenv, while everyone else needed 16GB. All it took was a couple hours to setup the local environment. Never had a problem because the environment was different and my app startup times were much smaller.