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> What hope does an average site have if a simple tweet requires MegaBytes of JS and seconds to interactivity? But dev deploying that abomination spent whole d
by ilyt 4y ago
> What hope does an average site have if a simple tweet requires MegaBytes of JS and seconds to interactivity?
But dev deploying that abomination spent whole days less by just including random shit instead of understand the problems they solve! That's investor value!
- brookst 4y agoHey now, if you’re measuring my performance base on lines of code, I am damn well including everything I can think of, and cloning it right into my code rather than using it by reference.
- dotancohen 4y agoSomebody smarter than me once quipped that measuring a software developer's performance based on lines of code is akin to measuring aerospace engineer's performance based on the mass he adds to the vehicle.
- sokoloff 4y agoBill Gates - https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programming-progress-by-lines-of-code-is-like-measuring https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/536587-measuring-programmin...
- Jasper_ 4y agoYeah, if it wasn't for the improved developer velocity of these fancy new JavaScript frameworks, we would have been left with a basic HTML version of the widget that doesn't require any JavaScript and has all the same features. Unthinkable!