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Ygg2 3 minutes ago [-]
Honestly, I'm in partially disagree camp. What matters is how much time it saves.
A good WYSIWYG editor will run circles around the fastest text editor. Even if WYSIWYG is a bit slower to open.
It would be preferable for software to be more focused and faster over time, but that doesn't attract people to it.
rossant 13 minutes ago [-]
I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.
fmajid 53 minutes ago [-]
No, no software is the best software.
BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
embedding-shape 39 minutes ago [-]
Best solution is no software, or as little code as possible. But that the best software is no software isn't very practical or actionable :)
dan_i 15 minutes ago [-]
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FrankRay78 50 minutes ago [-]
Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.
gsu2 60 minutes ago [-]
This is slop; I stopped reading after this line:
> Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why.
ManuelKiessling 43 minutes ago [-]
The article is from 2019.
arcanemachiner 5 minutes ago [-]
The slop is breaching temporal containment!
robjimgreen 27 minutes ago [-]
This is definitely not slop. I’ve followed Craig Mod’s work for a long time and he’s a prolific, talented, and very human writer.
A good WYSIWYG editor will run circles around the fastest text editor. Even if WYSIWYG is a bit slower to open.
It would be preferable for software to be more focused and faster over time, but that doesn't attract people to it.
BTW, the title should say "(2019)".
> Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why.