3 ms·
>computers are orders of magnitude nimbler than what experience in our day-to-day True but that's looking at it from only a technical POV. The market clearly d
by mufti_menk 3y ago
>computers are orders of magnitude nimbler than what experience in our day-to-day
True but that's looking at it from only a technical POV. The market clearly doesn't care about some extra latency, and in return bloat means a massive decrease in the cost and time taken to develop software. Electron allows a company to use a single team of web devs (most common skillset, cheaper labor pool) cross-platform, why would they give that up for better performance? The bloat will keep piling as long as that's the case.
- RetroTechie 3y ago> bloat means a massive decrease in the cost and time taken to develop software. In the past, programmers bit-banged I/O bare metal, and hardware tinkerers soldered computers from TTL IC's. Today, programmers code in Python & glue software libraries together. Hardware folks wire CPU-powered peripherals onto creditcard sized supercomputers. Same concept. Only the building blocks have increased in their (internal) complexity.
- mufti_menk 3y agoI agree, there's no point being mad at it since there's good reasons why it ended up this way