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by drnick1 3 hours ago
Oh, you mean those shitty Web UI frameworks with worse performance on modern hardware than native GUI programs from 1995?

Back then devs were not taking shortcuts, it was the C API or bust, and it very much shows how far we have regressed.
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SiempreViernes 3 hours ago
Oh no, the devs back then were for sure taking all the shortcuts they could, there just weren't as many ways to leave problems for the users compute to solve.
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brookst 2 hours ago
C API was a shortcut. Extensive use of C was a sign of a lazy programmer who wouldn't send the time to write in assembly, which was much more efficient and performant.
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