[flukus]

> For example IDEs: Visual Studio in 2017 is certainly better than Visual Studio in 1997

Is it? 97 might be a bit extreme, but the other day I opened an old project which was still on VS2010 and I was struck by how much faster 2010 was while still having nearly every VS feature that I wanted. They're slowing porting VS to .net and paying a huge performance penalty for that.

[p0nce]

And VS2010 is itself _much_ slower than previous versions.

[jasonhanley]

That's the type of example I've come across all too frequently. Software that's 5-10 years old, has all the same functionality, uses a fraction of the resources, and is often "better" in several ways.

Older versions of Android Facebook seem massively faster and use a fraction of the RAM while providing (nearly?) the same functions and features.

[dave7]

Excel 2000 is lightning quick compared to the modern versions (well, 2013 is as modern as I got)

[maxxxxx]

Try VS 2008 for speed. And it had distinguishable icons!