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by rijx
889 days ago
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I respectfully disagree. I’ve passed the same thoughts back and forth in my mind before, but it’s mostly nostalgia. Yes, some tools were much snappier on much crappier hardware, but they also lacked features, including safety and collaborative ones. We have so many more people using computer devices and the internet now. We have to account for them to some extent and a lot of libraries do that for us, but it does make them heavier. I’d say yes software has gotten fat and slow in a lot places, but also immensely more capable and more reusable. |
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A significant percentage (majority?) of those devices and internet connections are low powered and slow compared to what most readers here are using
Those heavy libraries can often exclude those users simply because they can't adequately run the fancy features those libraries provide
There's a balance here that I think we, as an industry, are not managing well