Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer hardware upgrades?

Re:Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer ... by LarryMade2 on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @12:16AM (#25342159)

As a developer I don't want to be on the cutting edge of hardware, then you get into telling the users to always get faster machines (like you have), new OSs, etc. Prefer to be near the trailing edge where the code is stable and software optimization really makes a difference.

Where do you guys see the benefits of you having newer hardware than your customers?

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Re:Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer ... by detaro on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:01AM (#25343583)

The customers run the optimized software, I need to compile it (and run other expensive buildsteps), run (slower) debug builds of it, run it with profilers slowing it down, ...

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Re:Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer ... by bobthepanda on Wednesday December 09, 2020 @03:53AM (#25356653)

You can track latency and whatnot through KPIS, there’s no need to shoot yourself in the foot over it.

If it really sucks you’ll know; there’s that famous experiment where 100ms in latency at 2006 Amazon was $100M in sales.

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Re:Ask HN: Why are software companies stingy with developer ... by frankus on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @05:08PM (#25352066)

This is a valid concern for web and desktop development, but it's not uncommon to be cross-compiling for a mobile or embedded system where that isn't a concern.

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