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I didn’t think of it that way, It’s probably a tug war

• TeMPOraL 5y ago
  Chrome has stellar engineering work done on it. It'd bet it's in the top 10 of the most optimized pieces of software ever. It's because of this work that modern web applications are even possible. The consequence - perhaps unintended - is that the web application practices all settled around extremely wasteful but "fast enough" patterns. It takes extra work and going against the grain to make web applications performant, and rarely anyone bothers.
  • imbnwa 5y ago
    In my experience what you're describing is true. JIRA Scrum is abused by businesses to implicitly blackmail teams into delivering ASAP, that means shortcuts and dependencies to "get shit done". All else is secondary. Tech debt? Put it in the backlog. "Good enough" is king. Every fault attributed to "stupid web devs" is just a projection to mask the true anxiety that the market has deemed expert, artisanal engineering irrelevant to profit and success. A comment above was lauding a fork of an open source electron app for implementing a C++ backend: good luck convincing a business to do that. Microsoft probably does this for VS Code precisely because their demographic are people who profess sensitivity to these types of details, but the broader population is not.