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Looks like people are going to have to resort to writing better code.
by dkjaudyeqooe 4y ago
Looks like people are going to have to resort to writing better code.
- karmakaze 4y agoAn interesting way to look at it is time-reversed. Tell a fresh software dev that's using a modern tech stack with a dynamic language back-end and React front-end to make a useful application with 1980s hardware limitations. They'd barely believe it was even possible without the historical evidence. Improvements in computing hardware has been a crutch. It's just an economics optimization problem: what's cheaper for getting stuff made, hardware or people? It's also interesting that software dev hasn't gotten much/any easier, only different. Making an app in Smalltalk is probably easier than the many frameworks split backend/frontend dev that we do today.
- sitkack 4y agoIt would take them about a week to adjust. We operate in a time and a place with acknowledged and unacknowledged constraints. Interpreted basic ran fine or many business applications in the 80s. The increase in computing power has allowed non-essential accidental complexity to run rampant, but it doesn't matter because the incremental cost has gone to zero. I am sure somewhere you can order lunch via an SMS message, have it delivered by moped and pay for the whole thing cash.