Comment on Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 2 days agoWell, the point and click part was a bit extreme. Still true in some rare cases, but actual programming still requires a keyboard.
However the RAM thing is interesting. Haven’t actually written any code in the 70’s and 80’s, but what I’ve heard from people who did, RAM was a huge bottle neck. Well, pretty much everything was. Even the bandwidth between your terminal and the mainframe was a bottle neck that made you suffer.
Back in those days, programmers were painfully aware of the hardware limitations. If you wanted your code to run within a reasonable amount of time, you absolutely had to focus on optimizing it.
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 2 days ago
It’s not a “bit extreme” its absolute nonsense
TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
LabVIEW is definitely programming of some sort, but doesn’t feel at all like programming. Pretty marginal example, but still…
michaelmrose@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Which suggests that they think teaching tools are how people actually program real software in the real world.
There are GUI tools to script behavior in GUI game engine tools as well but this is only enabled by actual programmers producing the tools and most actual games have a shit ton of code that couldn’t have been scripted with the GUI as well.