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Ok this particular piece of garbage software is not the crime of the century, and we all have dirty underwear, but there is nothing about this that deserves the tiniest bit of empathy. This is not an empathy situation. This is an atrocious job full stop. Anyone attempting, or purporting to do this job should know this, and if they don't know this, then that very fact is the unforgivable thing. I say this as someone w…
I believe they're referring to the tone of language used, which is IMHO just unnecessarily rude. > THIS is why your software is slow. it's not "web tech" or "electron" or "JIT compilation" or any fucking sorting algorithm > it's boneheaded _design decisions_ made to avoid doing things properly in packages with 1,600,000 weekly downloads. > :DDDDDDDDDD this is why everyone hates nodejs developers Yes, you can criticis…
the bit about web tech and electron is a direct response to a common criticism i see about software written with these frameworks, they have a reputation for being slow and bloated and from experience i know it doesn't have to be that way, what makes web apps bloated and slow is usually poor design choices. the point i was trying to get across here is that this code written this way would've been slow if it was C too, it's not always about the tech stack. same goes for the comments about nodejs, i love node, but some of the packages in the ecosystem really let it down, and it means node devs get a bad wrap.
i know my general tone isn't great, i do feel for the package maintainer and tried to get in touch to get ahead of this but didn't find a way to do so. though in my defence, this is far from the first time i've tweeted about discord bogging down a system and 99.9% of the time they've gone nowhere, let alone reached hackernews, i've never had "a platform" so i've never had the need to worry about things like this before, it's something i've noted for the future, so i hope that makes things a little more understandable.