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The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.
by rat9988 6mo ago
The art is not lost, just not funded. Feel free to fund the programmers for your own software projects.
- kitsune1 6mo ago[dead]
- tempest_ 6mo agoIt isnt lost but it also isnt a common skill set in programmers any more. Most programmers are JS web devs writing client side code or server side CRUD. I would guess < 10% of programmers writing code today get perf / valgrind out on the regular. I know I dont.
- siruwastaken 6mo agoMost people don't have the chance to do that, but hopefully we can see some other languages get first class access on the web. At least there is the whole WASM project.
- zozbot234 6mo agoYou can still write JS or TypeScript code that tries its best to keep memory use under check. JavaScript was around in the late 90s when the memory footprint of software was at least an order of magnitude lower, so it's absolutely doable.
- tempest_ 6mo agoJavaScript in the late 90s was doing a hell of a lot less than it is today.
- Quothling 6mo agoYou don't have to go that deep. 99% of the time our analytics or risk management teams have some really memory inefficient Python and they want me to write them one of our "magic C things" it turns out to be fixable by replacing their in-memory iterations with a generator.