It really can’t be stated strongly enough, the damage this advice has done. When I first started seeing it, I rolled my eyes thinking, “This is obviously a mistake, even new students won’t ignore reality>”. 20 years later, jokes on me, all the software is slow and bad.
It’s not even that they didn’t know how to program for efficiency but that they chose the most inefficient tools possible to share web browser and app code
that was always an option… but people don’t know how to program for efficiency because “ram is cheap” was ALWAYS the answer to everything
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It really can’t be stated strongly enough, the damage this advice has done. When I first started seeing it, I rolled my eyes thinking, “This is obviously a mistake, even new students won’t ignore reality>”. 20 years later, jokes on me, all the software is slow and bad.
I think you nailed it there. Now that ram is no longer cheap, devs better start learning.
It’s not even that they didn’t know how to program for efficiency but that they chose the most inefficient tools possible to share web browser and app code