Windows 10 takes 30 minutes to update. What could it possibly be doing for that long? We have a contractor who built a system on Azure that I'm about to take o

Windows 10 takes 30 minutes to update. What could it possibly be doing for that long? We have a contractor who built a system on Azure that I'm about to take over. I was complaining about how slow RDP'ing into the Azure machine that runs Visual Studio and SSMS is. The contractor said it's quite fast for him so I sent him a video of what I see. In that video, you can watch parts the window as they are painted. Same for executing a query in SSMS. Now, this guy is a fantastic engineer but, I had to chuckle a little when he saw the video and replied, "Yeah, that's how fast it is for me too." After two weeks of fighting with SSIS and RDP speeds, I eventually gave up and rewrote it in Clojure in less than a day. Modern text editors have higher latency than 42-year-old Emacs. Visual Studio Code is about the only Microsoft product I have any respect for yet, for the most part, I've gone back to Vim as my daily driver. Even the contractor I mentioned above said he uses it a lot of the time. The iPhone 4s was released with iOS 5, but can barely run iOS 9. I have had so much respect for Apple in the past for saying openly, "This release is going to be lacking in features because we're going to try to make things run better." Yet, when was the last time they did such a release for any of their platforms? Given some of the oddities I'm having with Sonoma, I'd say it's time. Windows 95 was 30MB. Today we have web pages heavier than that! I spent 2/3 of my career trying to make web applications as good or better than native. I gave up on that about 10 years ago after realizing that a) the webplatform was designed as a document sharing system, not an application platform and, b) as much as I love Javascript, Node and NPM are a dumpster fire. We need to call it a day and do something else. My vote is for something akin to Flutter. Also, the shear tonnage web application frameworks are a clear sign to me that it is a problem that can't be solved. They all eventually devolve into a bloated mess. Related: Nobody thinks compiler that works minutes or even hours is a problem. Am I the only one that thinks compiling dynamic, scripting languages is insane? Jeff Goldblum called. He want's his Jurassic Park quote back. It just seems that nobody is interested in building quality, fast, efficient, lasting, foundational stuff anymore. 50% of the blame needs to be put on the stakeholders. Too many of them don't understand (and, often, don't want to) and demand the product be delivered cheaply and done yesterday. The current state of software is what attitude that produces. Better world manifesto 100% agree.