Dave Garage - Why your new computer is slower than your old computer

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FM596@reddit

In other words - in my view - today's programming school of thought is just lame developer-oriented programming instead of client-oriented one.

It is only meant to save developers time and effort, and inevitably it results in clients being tortured, and highly performant hardware being abused to the extreme, with stupid, redundant or unnecessary procedures that are anything but optimized.

Of course everything starts from the OS, then almost at every app, including open source ones like Firefox which for example consumes many GBs or RAM in no time, for no good reason.

The problem is, that while today we have far higher demands of functionality, the programming intelligence applied to implement it has been dramatically reduced - and this some thing it's ...progress!

This is the equivalent to having entered a programming idiocracy era for good, and AI is making it even worse, by the day.

For this situation I would sort responsibility from higher to lower as bellow:

coding academies
book / courses authors
indie devs/open-source contributors- who could make the difference
project managers
professional programmers
unavoidable heavy trash coming from other projects, due to dependencies.

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omniuni@reddit

This isn't particularly relevant to the Programming subreddit.

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FM596@reddit

Surely, trash developers and trash managers should be offended.

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dougception@reddit

Agree. WTF is it doing here? I've seen this guy's videos. He's only in it "for the subs and likes".

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loneraver@reddit

I watched this last night so my memory might be a little off but I think his argument was that modern computers run slower because of modern programming practices. We don’t write software with performance in mind anymore. Nobody writes assembly code…

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omniuni@reddit

The fact that some newer software is slower because of how it is made isn't really related to programming itself.

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ChemicalRascal@reddit

Yes it is. That we generally have a degradation of software performance (whether or not that is actually true) due to modern abstractions, or lazy software engineers, or because the moon was split into three in 1995 and released gremlins that feed on cpu cycles, these are related to programming. It impacts the performance you get out of your software. Even if it's actually totally wrong, it's relevant.

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dukey@reddit (OP)

Software bloat is definitely a real problem. Skype on a mid-range android phone was borderline unusable because it was so slow, and this was just doing simple things like, text chat.

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hinckley@reddit

There's about 5 layers of cruft between assembly code and whatever platform on a platform on a platform is running half the applications in use today. Lack of assembly programming really has nothing to do with it.

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loneraver@reddit

You’re not wrong.. This is his argument. Not mine. He is pointing to programming practices as why your computer applications are slow.

My point is that he points programming practices which is why I could just op posting this here.

Again, not my argument.

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seweso@reddit

What is this story mode? Why YouTube? Why a video?

I’m against stories on this sub. It’s to verbose.

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new

Windows 10 was over 10 years ago.

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TheRealPomax@reddit

And still supported, and it's going to stay on my computer until windows has stopped being the fuckery it is today.