Comment by arp242

> I still think we'd all be better off with infinitely fast, infinitely resourced computers. IMO, austerity offers no benefit.

Well, sure. But these computers don't exist, so that doesn't really matter.

The main reason I bought a new laptop last year is because the frontend build process needed about 5G of RAM and ~4 minutes, which was a real productivity-killed. I'm not a frontend dev, I inherited all of this, and wasn't so easy to fix for both technical and organisational reasons.

Excessive austerity offers no benefit, I agree, but some projects are out of control in their resource usage, and impose a real burden with it.