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I think it’s a natural trend. We move to higher and higher level abstractions over time, which makes development easier but has a performance cost. The trade o

I think it’s a natural trend. We move to higher and higher level abstractions over time, which makes development easier but has a performance cost. The trade off is worth it for the most part. Of course if CPUs stop improving exponentially, the tradeoff calculus changes. Also the need to care about battery life has somewhat shifted thinking back towards efficiency

kjkjadksj 4y ago
How can it be worth it? Does 2020 microsoft word do anything different than the one we used in 1995? Not really. Just now you need hardware thats 100x more powerful to output a .doc file. Thats waste, not a gain.