A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years Ago

Re:A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years... by bdw5204 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:02AM (#40830168)

To the extent users do care about the tech, they care about performance not how "clean" the code is or whether you're using the newest framework. Users hate when software is slow or uses an exorbitant amount of memory.

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Re:A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years... by bazoom42 on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:19AM (#40830285)

Most users have no idea how much memory a piece of software uses. They care about user experience though which means they will care if the UI hangs or is unresponsive.

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Re:A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years... by graypegg on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:50AM (#40830542)

Bingo. I’d go further and say they don’t care about your application at all. They just want to do something, and your application’s quality is measured by how little it stands in the way of accomplishing that.

The sad fact is this encapsulates features (ease of development, a framework probably does help you ship faster), adaptability (clean abstractions that are easy to work with), and performance.

Finding that balance is always going to be hard but they’re all important!

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Re:A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years... by dano on Saturday June 29, 2024 @09:26AM (#40830329)

Yeah, I totally agree. Those other factors are internal optimizations. What gets me is when a team wants to switch horses to new tech and do a forklift upgrade just to implement something using the new hotness.

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Re:A Bunch of Programming Advice I'd Give to Myself 15 Years... by imhoguy on Saturday June 29, 2024 @01:04PM (#40831972)

And if the product is aimed at prousers/communities who extend the functionality themselves with their own commands, scripts and plugins.

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