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> As an industry, we should be deeply ashamed at how much of the world's time and resources are wasted running poor software so a company can save a few bucks.
by gabeio 5y ago
> As an industry, we should be deeply ashamed at how much of the world's time and resources are wasted running poor software so a company can save a few bucks.
This seems like you are saying everyone should write in assembly or c language for ever task possible, since that's the only way to avoid "wasting the worlds resources running poor software". At some point the trade offs are not solely "so that a company can save a few bucks", the trade offs also are things like "why spend 1 year writing a simple server which I can write a far superior server in say python/go/etc. in a few minutes". Yes, I understand you may be more specifically talking about Electron here, but at what point are you allowed to stop focusing on saving a few KB of ram or CPU cycles and focus on actually getting things done? Feeling productive? More platforms?
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- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago> This seems like you are saying everyone should write in assembly or c language for ever task possible, since that's the only way to avoid "wasting the worlds resources running poor software". No. Look, computers today are many orders of magnitude faster and more powerful than they once were but our software still takes measurable seconds to do simple tasks. That's not 'oh, my software could be a bit more optimal' level of slow, that's 'I built my software like a Rube Goldberg machine made of garbage' slow. > but at what point are you allowed to stop focusing on saving a few KB of ram or CPU cycles and focus on actually getting things done? If it were only a few KB of RAM and a few dozen CPU cycles we wouldn't even be having this conversation! We live in a world where people seem to think a chat program using a GB of memory is acceptable. That's just insane.