News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on "Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.". Parent comment

Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by Gigachad on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @02:40PM (#39017994)
Once you’ve got Node, docker, Postgres, redis, an IDE, etc running, the system is out of memory and already chugging before your actual app even opens.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by toast0 on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @03:09PM (#39018407)
Run all that stuff on a different machine than you run the app on. Unless the app includes all that stuff.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware be... by Gigachad on Tuesday January 16, 2024 @05:47PM (#39020216)
It's massively easier to just give someone a macbook that actually works properly and runs everything you need than to hand out people plastic chromebooks and mess around with remote development environments. Then if required, hire some testers to click around on cheap hardware. But realistically, the users on 2010 laptops aren't the ones paying the companies bills so no one really wants to spend money on them.
[ Parent | on HN ]