Parkinson's law in software is real. As Jon Blow often says, our computers are basically supercomputers that are astoundingly bogged down by bad software develo

Parkinson's law in software is real. As Jon Blow often says, our computers are basically supercomputers that are astoundingly bogged down by bad software development practices. The computer I'm on is at the very least several dozen times more powerful than the one I had 20 years ago, yet a lot of functionally equivalent software probably runs at about the same speed, certainly not an order of magnitude faster let alone several dozen times faster despite not doing several times more. The problem is that a lot of software developers don't even realize how bad their software design is because of prevailing norms, and the state of affairs can only be upended by certain developers showing that another way is possible when programming with the hardware rather than against it. As someone who has to use Visual Studio and ReSharper professionally, I was absolutely blown away when I tried out the (still in alpha) 10x Editor and found it accomplishing in less than a second something that takes ReSharper several dozen seconds, during which it locks up the editor, or that it might even fail to do entirely, having succeeded only in making VS unresponsive (finding all usages of a widely overridden virtual function): https://www.10xeditor.com/ https://www.10xeditor.com/ (Disclaimer: I was impressed enough by the editor's performance to become a paid supporter.) (Another VS extension I use is P4VS, which is slow, buggy garbage that will lock up VS if you look at it funny. In fact, P4V and the P4 extension for Windows Explorer are also utterly dismal, but Helix Force just don't seem to give a damn.) Another example is Casey Muratori making a terminal several orders of magnitude faster than the Windows one simply by designing it well, without even going through an optimization process: https://youtu.be/hxM8QmyZXtg https://youtu.be/hxM8QmyZXtg It's fair to say that a huge amount of modern software is at least an order of magnitude slower than it needs to be. The standards in the software development industry are frustratingly low and there is a deplorable dearth of disruptors to push them in another direction.