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> It seems fairly reductive to dismiss the legitimate advantages of increased productivity. Certainly there are some, but I think we passed the point of dimini
by AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y ago
> It seems fairly reductive to dismiss the legitimate advantages of increased productivity.
Certainly there are some, but I think we passed the point of diminishing returns long long ago and we're now well into the territory of regression. I would argue that we are actually experiencing negative productivity increases from a lot of the abstractions we employ, because we've built up giant abstraction stacks where each new abstraction has new leaks to deal with and everything is much more complicated than it needs to be because of it.
- nicoburns 5y agoHmm... I think our standards for application functionality are also a lot higher. For example, how many applications from the 90s dealt flawlessly with unicode text.
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 5y agoHow much added slowness do you think Unicode is responsible for? Because as much of a complex nightmarish standard as it is[0], there are plenty of applications that are fast that handle it just fine as far as I can tell. They're built with native widgets and written in (probably) C. [0] plenty of slow as fuck modern software doesn't handle it even close to 'flawlessly'