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Computers of the past were undoubtably slower on average; both in terms of physical performance as well as their UX. The software of now, when compared to the s
by lunias 7y ago
Computers of the past were undoubtably slower on average; both in terms of physical performance as well as their UX. The software of now, when compared to the software of then, is slow relative to the hardware that it runs on. Before we used to strive to do more with less. Today we strive to do more with more. In an attempt to do more, faster and easier; we've made trade offs.
I wish we would circle back and remember the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unix_philosophy.
Not every app needs every feature rolled out by FAANG in the last decade.
JavaScript is not the best choice for every part of every application stack.
It seems important to me that programs become focused and composable again.