Comment on Apple keeps flogging 8GB of RAM for its Mac computers but it's still a dead horse
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months agoNot gonna lie, writing code in various ways can be more efficient processing time wise, but often at the cost of complexity, or readability or time to code it.
As phones have gotten faster, and depending on what I’m working on, I’ll take the easier to code and read route than the absolutely best optimized route.
Although there are definitely times you still need to optimize
jorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
It’s less about individual developers writing bad code and more about whole inefficient frameworks gaining popularity because of ease of use or deployment
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Are those frameworks so poorly written they can’t be optimized then? That’d have a pretty substantial impact if widely adopted.
jorp@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I’d argue that’s true in some cases, for example web apps might work well enough on modern device hardware but they’ll never meet the performance of even mid-tier native apps
NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Ah gotcha. They’re just inherently less performant in some/many cases but that provides a benefit in some other way.