>>>But what they don't tell you is their experience level, the context of how they came to believe Y, or really any supporting understanding of whether Y is an

>>>But what they don't tell you is their experience level, the context of how they came to believe Y, or really any supporting understanding of whether Y is an actual technical tradeoff that needs to be considered. Yes, thankyou! I think about this every time I see "Systems are so powerful we can just throw RAM/CPU cycles at every problem, efficiency doesn't matter..." as if everyone on the planet is doing web apps, and there are no engineering/architectural situations that might drive certain languages or design principles. Such as this: https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdfs/literature/wp/wp-01020.pdf https://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/programmable/us/en/pdf... I guess I'm just focused on a niche market...