[SaxonRobber]

This is the philosophy that has led to our software becoming slower despite improvements in hardware.

Performance is always important. Especially for consumer applications, where your software will probably need to run alongside many other processes each competing for resources.

[celeritascelery]

> This is the philosophy that has led to our software becoming slower despite improvements in hardware.

I disagree. Software has gotten slower over time because we are adding more fluff to it (SDK’s, libraries, electron, GUI animations, web interactions, frameworks, etc). Not because the developers are failing to focus on code optimizations.