Re:Portability Is Reliability
by slver on Thursday May 06, 2021 @02:38AM
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Focusing all your might on a single platform can give you reliability and even better performance, and is less work.
Focusing on portability gives you a set of abstractions to build upon, that will take your time, reduce performance often, and limit your capabilities. But... it can also make you have a better mental problem of the problem you're solving, and allow you to move faster when underlying details change.
Focusing on portability gives you a set of abstractions to build upon, that will take your time, reduce performance often, and limit your capabilities. But... it can also make you have a better mental problem of the problem you're solving, and allow you to move faster when underlying details change.
Like everything, it has ups and downs, I think.