Back then, when I was a kid, I got a computer with MS-DOS that could run Windows 95. The machine only got 800 MB of Hard Disk. I don’t know how much RAM it got - in fact, I didn’t even know what a RAM is, but it was enough to run games like Doom, Sim City 2000, Red Alert, etc. All the pixel good old days. All the regular works such as typing documents, etc. could be carried out as expected. Fast forward a bit, I got a new computer with Pentium 2 with GeForce 2. Amount of RAM for this machine sh...
I fully agree with this. But I would phrase it slightly differently.
As computers and resources become better, and the libraries become more comprehensive, it takes fewer people less time to develop software that’s good enough, but is a resource hog compared to the past. So the trend is software is going to use resources available so that the programmers don’t have to spend too much time programming.
All software is built in an ecosystem of today, so it has to be good enough for today, but it doesn’t have to run well on older hardware. Because the feedback loop doesn’t include efficiency, it just includes good enough
I fully agree with this. But I would phrase it slightly differently.
As computers and resources become better, and the libraries become more comprehensive, it takes fewer people less time to develop software that’s good enough, but is a resource hog compared to the past. So the trend is software is going to use resources available so that the programmers don’t have to spend too much time programming.
All software is built in an ecosystem of today, so it has to be good enough for today, but it doesn’t have to run well on older hardware. Because the feedback loop doesn’t include efficiency, it just includes good enough