Devices maybe but servers less so, if you can get a 100x performance increase from going g from say PHP to LuaJIT then you can save a lot of money without a productivity loss.
Definitely. But you're also not going to stand to gain as much from writing some of the tools I'm talking about, anyway.
There will definitely always been places where software efficiency trumps programmer efficiency, but for a lot of cases, it doesn't. It's still important, just not always the most important.
There will definitely always been places where software efficiency trumps programmer efficiency, but for a lot of cases, it doesn't. It's still important, just not always the most important.