Yeah, it could definitely, from a biz perspective, be worth being arbitrarily slow or sloppy. But purely from a tech perspective, expect something like a rewrit

Yeah, it could definitely, from a biz perspective, be worth being arbitrarily slow or sloppy. But purely from a tech perspective, expect something like a rewrite if speed becomes a priority. Sadly, most software today is insanely slow(†), compared to what it could be, which I think reflects the unfortunate business reality that's it better to get anything out to market quickly than actually build fast software. But you have to be careful or you'll end up in the situation of e.g., Microsoft, which recently had a video bragging that the latest version of Teams did something like take startup time down from 10 seconds to 5 seconds (video seems to be gone now, alas). They're apparently working heroically to try to improve the performance, but it's really really hard since slowness was baked into the architecture. († Just typing this comment in Safari is lagging pretty terribly. This on a Macbook M1 pro. Though of course just entering text in a textbox should be snappy even on a potato.)