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Would developers write better software if they had to write on slower, older machines with less memory and storage?
by niels_olson 13y ago
Would developers write better software if they had to write on slower, older machines with less memory and storage?
- batoure 13y agoI think the machine that they design on isn't nearly as important as the machine that they have in their head as designing for. When testing the early OS and apps for the iphone apple purposely cobbled together a machine that was crippled (performance wise) to be representative of how the end product would run from a user experience perspective. http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/26/heres-what-apples-first-hacked-together-iphone-looked-like-an/ http://www.tuaw.com/2014/03/26/heres-what-apples-first-hacke...
- rwallace 13y agoNo. They would write the kind of software we used to write back in the days when all computers are like that and we traded away everything else for machine efficiency because we had no choice: clumsy, feature impoverished, riddled with arbitrary limits that trip you up at the worst possible moment, fundamentally insecure, hard to use and generally crap.