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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 15, 2024, 06:31:48 PM »...this isn't wrong, but electron apps are also legitimately bloated. it feels like we've taken the improvements in CPU speed and memory cost for granted, even if it was for a good reason. those hardware improvements arent necessarily going to continue forever - at some point we will run up against physical limits, so programmers should be more responsible about performance. the need to ship fast is often in conflict with writing performant software
the only exception to my point is TVs, why the forget do all of them have such stuffty god damn processors. I have never bought a ""smart"" TV that functions without significant input lag or crashing. In this case, I think running an entire OS on the thing is overengineering and it should only display what the inputs are giving it. I want my TVs dumb as a bricknah but I do like having a netflix/amazon prime/emby/etc app right on the TV.
i have to imagine they develop the OS on dev machines that perform much better than the TVs themselves
they might also be writing OSes that are used by many different TV models with different hardware