Re:They don't make 'em like that any more: Borland Turbo Pas...
by serf on Sunday November 08, 2026 @09:56AM
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>What non-ideological motivation do I have to ration computing resources on my IDE?
I feel gross explaining this.
If we both have the same exact machine, but I choose to use software that uses substantially less resources -- well -- then I get to run more of that software simultaneously.
if you use computers as some big single-tasked typewriter equivalent then yeah, who cares.
it's not all fucking style and ideology, sometimes behaviors have a decent concrete reasoning.
I feel gross explaining this.
If we both have the same exact machine, but I choose to use software that uses substantially less resources -- well -- then I get to run more of that software simultaneously.
if you use computers as some big single-tasked typewriter equivalent then yeah, who cares.
it's not all fucking style and ideology, sometimes behaviors have a decent concrete reasoning.