About text editors... you can use blazing fast editors if you want like cli-base ones, notepad++ or sublimetext... If devs are not using those to code anymore there may be reasons, right?
Eclipse ran better on my $600 laptop in 2012 than pycharm runs on my 6 core 2019 macbook. Also, on my macbook, high cpu activity causes constant pops in my audio, which is just a thing that happens with macbooks that people just ignore apparently.
It is apparently an iron law of the Universe that all available computing power must be wasted.
That's a bit of an exaggeration. What stack's hello world takes 10 minutes to build?
Since the discussion is around CPU hardware improvements, I don't think network speeds are too relevant.
You’re doing something extremely wrong if this is the case.
Or more likely, the people complaining about “10 minute” web app compile times are just repeating hyperbole they found in other cynical comments.
We can all agree software is not as resource efficient as it used to be on the whole.
Beyond that we’d have to discuss specific examples and benchmarks.
I could be wrong. I often am. But I suspect that Electron consumes far more resources in the minds of HN users than it does in most computers.
However the differences are real and have been measured. [1] [2] You are welcome to argue that the performance work isn't worth prioritizing, but don't fall into the trap of claiming the performance gap doesn't exist.
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Typing in Sublime Text is always fast. Except for the first line which is the title of the tab. After that, it is fast.
I often switch to ST to type, then copy and paste to the slow app.
It's kinda nuts.