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Re:Algorithms for Modern Hardware by throwaway2037 on Sunday March 17, 2024 @03:05AM (#39732496) 

    > then write new software in ... electron
Yeah, I agree. The OP's point is a bit misguided. The reason why people use Electron is it is cheaper to develop an app in Electron. By "cheaper", I mean the cost of developers plus the hardware needed to run it well. How much does an enterprise desktop PC with a 3+GHz CPU cost? Surely less than 2K USD. How much does a developer cost? It is hard to pay less than 75K USD per year.

And about Python: Almost no one is doing CPU intensive work in pure Python. They are using C-language extensions like Pandas, NumPy, etc.

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Re:Algorithms for Modern Hardware by josephg on Monday March 18, 2024 @04:41AM (#39741584)
> How much does an enterprise desktop PC with a 3+GHz CPU cost? Surely less than 2K USD. How much does a developer cost?

But the software runs on the computers of all of their users. How much money do their users' computers cost? If you have just 10k users, probably $10M or so? But software companies don't pay for my computer's resources. The money I need to spend on computer hardware isn't priced in to your calculus at all. They don't care.

I find it pretty frustrating and sad.

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