There's hope for the extinction of Electron based apps.
Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
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Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#12No. Customers will pay more across all markets.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#13I don't think at this point in history limitations drive the the way we do things, abundance does.
Increasingly, the "what do we have the most of?" questions will return "RAM" less and less often.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#14For this incentive to exist, the app needs to be such an obvious memory hog that users start identifying it as the source of the problem.
Even then, a lot is required for most businesses to prioritize this (presumably) temporary issue at the cost of things like: participation in the AI race, other features, bug fixes, new markets etc.
Heck, sometimes software is so inefficient that it costs developer and tester productivity but a fix is not prioritized for years.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#15I was thinking about this recently. If you discount web/electron bloat, actually the memory bloat of software isn't hugely terrible.
I still often notice that servers on Linux use <1GB of RAM even with relatively high use. I don't think that's really changed massively in 20 years.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#16Memory? Doubt it.
But I’m hopefully optimistic that we’ll see a renewed emphasis on speed and responsiveness, since users do notice that despite most products ignoring it.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#17No. Customers will pay more across all markets.
what do you mean?
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#18No.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#19No. Customers will pay more across all markets.
what do you mean?
They're answering the question posed in the article: No, programmers won't write more efficient code.
They're suggesting that instead, consumers will just be forced to pay more for inefficient SaaS products being run on more expensive infrastructure.
Re: Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?
#20> will programmers write
Who’s going to tell them?