| Again, just more insane elitism. You keep going to the "OH MY GOD, PEOPLE WOULD DIE" examples to try and make a fairly weak point. No one is going to die, because some noob made a crappy little site out of the millions of crappy little sites, and it's not performing like a demi-god. VMs and high level languages aren't "training wheels". Especially not VMs, that's just complete and utter non-sense. Unless you think literally every website on the web should have a 100% dedicated server box. VMs are good for a great many of things, both noob-friendly and not. As for high level languages, they were meant for one particular thing. To get a task done quickly. Which is largely the real reason why so much software out in the wild performs like crap. Anyone can sit down and spend years making a highly performant piece of software. But when things have to move fast, corners get cut & there's not enough time dedicated to researching to get said product to be as highly performant. |
No I don’t think people die (although I wouldn’t be surprised if that was the case). I just don’t want to have to buy a 3000$ PC so I can run a fucking chat app, an editor and a browser somewhat decently. The opportunity cost of bad software is paid by billions of users every day.