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werner1886
4y ago
Just a stab in the dark but him (Allan) and Ryan Fleury are working on a much bigger project atm ( https://dion.systems/index.html ) which includes an editor too, so i'm guessing they just don't have enough time
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werner1886
4y ago
Sure, software of the past wasn't that much better, but relative to hardware it ran on it was much more performant. I think the main point of his view is that with current hardware advances we should be able to have a cake and eat it
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werner1886
4y ago
If you see his points and still disagree that's fair enough
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werner1886
4y ago
You clearly have no idea what's he is all about. His message is very clear: Modern software is crap. It's orders of magnitude slower than it should be, it's buggy, and,yes, bloated. And if you ever used any piece of software
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werner1886
5y ago
We might be thinking about different things here, so let me first ask this: What do you want to measure?
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werner1886
5y ago
He measures code 'simplicity' by how much work it makes CPU do, and not some made up metric like 'readability'.