Comment by zwnow
1 day ago
For 99% of apps slow software is compensated by fast hardware. In almost all cases, the speed of your software does not matter anymore. Unless speed is critical, you can absolutely justify writing slow software if its more maintainable that way.
And thus when I clicked on the link to a NPR story just now it was 10 seconds before the page was reasable on my computer.
Now my computer (pinebook pro) was never known as fast, but still it runs circles around the first computer I ran a browser. (I'm not sure which computer that was, but likely the CPU was running at 25mhz, could have been a 80486 or a Sparc CPU though - now get off my lawn you kids)
Those are things developers say to keep themselves employable.
We are long past knitting RAM. You should go with the times. Development speed is key nowadays. People literally dont care about speed. If they did, Amazon & Facebook were long gone.
> Development speed is key nowadays.
What does that mean?
I find I develop faster when I am not waiting on a bunch of unnecessary nonsense that is only present to supplement untrained developers. For example I can refactor an absolutely massive application in around 2 hours if I have end to end tests that execute in seconds and everything is defined as well organized interfaces.
You cannot develop fast if everything you touch is slow.
> People literally dont care
I am really not interested in develops inventing wild guesses.
Your users feel otherwise. If you actually care at all about the quality of the software you produce, stop rationalizing slow software.
No. Only tech savy users care. And these are the minority of relevant users. Why do people still buy shit on Amazon despite Amazon being horribly slow?