im so tired of computational progress at all costs
and software always being so slow
please upgrade from your perfectly serviceable machine, we wish to run more javascript
my computer isnt even *that* old I just dont have the money to have the latest hardware nor do i want to have the latest and greatest
i dont care about AI or raytracing or more cores, i just want to play old silly games, write, read, and talk to my friends
does anyone actually optimize their software or are they just not allowed to anymore
@lyncia
I've worked at a number of modern JavaScript shops now. You'll get the occasional insufferable nerd who argues performance to win the for/forEach argument, but for practical purposes nobody understands performance enough to optimize even if they cared.
Besides, half of everything gets transpiled to es5 so even if you do write good code, if you used a feature less than 20 years old it'll get polyfilled into slop.
Programming, JavaScript
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the concept of not optimizing is so foreign to me because most of the programming ive ever done was within set resource restraints and limitations, so I had to be creative and looking for bytes to save