It is simply not possible to carry on at the current level of economic activity without destroying the environment, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
imo it’s not even that software becomes more complex, it’s that now 70 % of all programs are some unoptimized webview, bc developers test it on $2k computers and can’t be bothered to use a proper cross platform framework
as an example, my phone is almost 7 years old, and everything runs smoothly, bc most of it are either fully native apps, flutter or react native or some other framework that renders to native os ui, while even on newest computers electron programs run meh
like, i like shiny things and beautiful animations, just don’t make it run inside 150 abstractions 😤
imo it’s not even that software becomes more complex, it’s that now 70 % of all programs are some unoptimized webview, bc developers test it on $2k computers and can’t be bothered to use a proper cross platform framework
as an example, my phone is almost 7 years old, and everything runs smoothly, bc most of it are either fully native apps, flutter or react native or some other framework that renders to native os ui, while even on newest computers electron programs run meh
like, i like shiny things and beautiful animations, just don’t make it run inside 150 abstractions 😤
Yeah exactly, functionality isn’t really changing and things are getting more bloated.