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0 pointslittlestymaar2mo ago0 comments

And this is why pretty much all commercial software is terrible and runs slower than the equivalent 20 years ago despite incredible advance in hardware.

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philipallstar2mo ago

For lots of software there wasn't an equivalent 20 years ago because there wasn't a language that would let developers explore semi-specified domains fast enough to create something useful. Unless it was visual basic, but we can't use that, because what would all the UX people be for?

littlestymaarOP2mo ago

Python itself is 30 years old. What are you talking about?

Almost every mainstream languages (except Go, Swift, Kotlin and Rust) are more than 30 years old, by the way.

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philipallstar2mo ago

littlestymaarOP2mo ago

Python itself is 30 years old. What are you talking about?

Almost every mainstream languages (except Go, Swift, Kotlin and Rust) are more than 30 years old, by the way.

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