[Starlevel001]

> I mean it's not like most consumer hardware has to be on the latest nodes.

Maybe developers should take some responsibility and stop fucking writing code that's slow as shit and unusable on anything past their company-paid for macbook pros.

In an ideal society programmers would be sat down and given a seven year old mid-range laptop and threatened that if their program lags in the slightest they would be fired and blacklisted from the industry.

[Syonyk]

Nah. "Raspberry Pi Day at Google." One day a week, your dual Xeon workstation is replaced with a Raspberry Pi 4. 8GB. Overclocked if you want.

It is absolutely adequate to do a lot of things one wants to do. But it will show when you've done something stupid with CPU.

I'm still bitter that Google ruined the Blogger editor interface. Fancy, shiny new interface... that lagged horribly if you had a low power CPU and a bunch of photos in a post. The old interface handled it perfectly, because I wrote an awful lot of blog posts on an old Atom netbook with a nice keyboard.

But, yes, any new hardware performance is more than chewed up by new software abstractions.

[eastbound]

Well they’ll just limit table rows to 6 instead of 10.

That’s what React does: Instead of showing a table of 200 rows, the performance of React is so poor that it’s a design trend to make you paginate through 10-line pages. So, soon 6, “for better performance”.

[krisoft]

Pay for it my dude. Software developers are perfectly able and willing to develop efficient and snappy software if given enough time to do it.

The reason it is not happening is because market forces don’t favour those solutions. But since you seem to care enough to threaten, fire, and backlist them surely you care enough to pay for the craftmanship required to get what you desire.