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Yep. Or writing video codecs or other performance critical software. It's amazing that people make blanket statements like this when really they're just not fam
by jebarker 1y ago
Yep. Or writing video codecs or other performance critical software. It's amazing that people make blanket statements like this when really they're just not familiar with what other SWEs are doing
- the_snooze 1y agoMore broadly, there's a lot of value in knowing how to work with constrained systems: things that have to be offline, or radiation-hardened, or low-power, or low-spec, etc. Those tend to be resilient systems; i.e., things that people can quietly rely on instead of being subject to "move fast and break things." Building web apps that you can update willy-nilly while running on arbitrarily powerful and always-available hardware isn't the entirety of software engineering.