Comment by bko

> Multiple generations of programmers have now been raised to believe that brutally inefficient, bloated, and slow software is just fine. There is no limit to the amount of boilerplate and indirection a computer can be forced to execute. There is no ceiling to the crystalline abstractions emerging from these geniuses. There is no amount of time too long for a JVM to spend starting.

I think that's due to people doing premature optimization! If people took the quote to heart, they would be less inclined to increasing the amount of boilerplate and indirection.