[sgtnoodle]

Indeed, it does seem rather ridiculous at face value. On the other hand, I have coworkers that run CPU-IPC bound workloads inside x86-64 docker containers on M1 macs (incurring the overhead of both machine code emulation and OS virtualization). I have other coworkers sweating for hours whether to use 32-bit or 64-bit integers for APIs designed for microcontrollers running at 300Mhz. I have even more coworkers writing stuff in rust because it's "memory safe" and "so fast", but they have no idea that they're doing thousands of unnecessary heap memory allocations per second when I naively start asking questions in a code review.

Even really smart, capable people in general have really poorly calibrated intuition when it comes to the intrinsic overhead of software. It's a testament to the raw computational power of modern hardware I guess. In the case of AWS, it's never been easier to accidentally a million dollars a month.

[goodpoint]

> rust because it's "memory safe" and "so fast", but they have no idea that they're doing

That summarizes hype-based design very well.