Does anyone remember "Volkov Commander"?
An old DOS file manager [1], written in assembly. Super fast and responsive, tiny size -- a fraction of Norton Commander &co's, never mind any modern tools.
Whenever I have to deal with the insanely inconvenient cluster fuck that is modern file managers (OSX Finder!), I probably feel the way you do about "modern web development".
Hope your hospital visit goes well.
Re:The Fastest Blog in the World (2015)
by TeMPOraL on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @05:33AM
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I'm with you. I have the same feeling about web, desktop and smartphone - each iteration of software does the same or less than previous one, while eating up any resource surplus created by advancements in hardware and optimizations of software stack.
I hope your visit went well.
I do roll all my own code (never touched jQuery et al), mostly because I can and I find it weirdly enjoyable. But threads like these do make me wonder if all these nice tools we have these days are really just a crutch for bad programming practices. I mean I know tech jumps exponentially with each iteration but I swear the performance gained by newer technology is just eaten up straight away by developers writing heavier code to accomplish the same things as before.
I know this all sounds hyper-cynical and I do like my compositing display manager with wobbly windows et al so I'm hardly in a position to moan about bloat. But I guess my rant is about how poor web markup is for expressing modern documents (let alone full blown web applications). Well that, and I just needed to rant because I'm stuck in a hospital waiting room at 1 in the morning...