Comment by swiftcoder
1 day ago
I used to keep laptops 5+ years, but recently I've realised that as a software engineer, this may be a bit of a false economy. It's my primary tool - if I can buy a ~20% performance bump sooner than that, it's absolutely worth it (and a deductible business expense into the bargain)
On one hand – absolutely.
On the other hand, I suspect this is the main reason we have those Electron abominations and bloated web apps nowadays.
Yeah. Unfortunately as a software engineer I'm constantly on the losing side of that battle - many of the tools I'm obligated to use have long-since become enshitified :/