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I've considered that, but I don't have the impression that app development has gotten faster over the last decade. I bet there's people who can chime in here.

• throwaway894345 6y ago
  If we're not spending the time optimizing, it must be going somewhere. If it's not going into faster, more frequent releases it might be going into improved quality (though I doubt that as well, from experience) or perhaps even just employing cheaper developers (and QA and management and design and etc) such that they produce software of the same performance in the same amount of time.
• kodah 6y ago
  It certainly has. Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist, pre-built component libraries weren't even a dream yet, and everyone was trying to get software to run consistently on each other's machines. These days there's worlds of abstraction between you and those problems. Those abstractions are in transpilation, libraries, etc which all take more power to get over the problem of time.
  • regularfry 6y ago
    >> last decade > Frameworks like Rails or Django didn't exist You... might want to check the git histories. And a calendar.
    • kodah 6y ago
      You are right, they were around. They didn't exist with the capabilities or simplicity they do today though. Rails is also benefitting from performance improvements to Ruby, most recently.
      • regularfry 6y ago
        The development velocity you could get with Rails was never constrained by the interpreter speed. That was part of the point, you could get a perfectly respectable project stood up on ruby 1.8.
  • pjmlp 6y ago
    Cough, Zope, AOLServer, ASP COM libraries, Vignette,...