Comment by jmspring
8 days ago
I think Moore's Law and related have made programming sloppy. AI is building on that. There was a time where accounting for memory, footprint, stability, and speed mattered. Your point shows we are well passed that aside from certain areas.
Heck, a buddy and I once chatted about the likelihood of k8s running as the control plane in a prototype autonomous vehicle.
top/btop/htop on the mac are always fun to run and see what's up.
Caring for memory mattered more when memory was sparse.
But then again, it's crazy how people are disingenuous. You're in a thread about Bun being rewritten from a non-memory-safe to a memory-safe language and everyone's shitting on it because it's a useless rewrite. How does this mesh with what you say about caring for stability?
Using AI you can actually start caring about things such as memory, footprint, stability and speed because it's crazy cheap to start optimizing for this, when before you couldn't afford to make the tradeoff.