> I don't know if it's some sort of perverse Stockholm syndrome, or if young developers today are just not familiar with how incredibly fast desktop application

> I don't know if it's some sort of perverse Stockholm syndrome, or if young developers today are just not familiar with how incredibly fast desktop applications used to be decades ago. Most of them have no idea how fast a computer is because they've been using ludicrously slow software for so long they just think that's normal. Microsoft developers these days seems to have a particularly warped understanding of what "fast" means in computing, see Teams startup times [0], VS startup times [1], or that whole debacle with Windows Terminal. [0] https://twitter.com/i/status/1640972391265230848 https://twitter.com/i/status/1640972391265230848 [1] I couldn't find a video in a reasonable time frame, but it is very slow compared to its predecessors just to launch let alone do anything that might justify it.