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VW Is Putting Buttons Back in Cars Because People Complained Enough (www.thedrive.com)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

It seems to be a very popular mindset in software development that efficiency isn't as important because of how fast hardware has gotten.

How's this for irony: I was hired at my current job as part of a team whose whole mission is to address performance problems in a large desktop app...that's written entirely in Typescript!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

It's kinda funny how some are willing to develop a skill to great depth (you'd have to know JavaScript/TypeScript very well to write a full deal desktop application in it, and it probably involved a LOT of frustrating debug if performance is the main issue with it) but don't spend any time on breadth to understand that some depths aren't worth it.