There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
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Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#2But software seems to be getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.
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#3Wow, my browser's Reader Mode saved my bacon on this one.
Otherwise, I would have left immediately.
I'm all for speedy, simple, plaintext websites, but it is a negligible amount of work in 2026 to throw some barebones CSS in and make it approachable.
Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#4But software seems to be getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.
Because it's not built with client side optimization in mind any more. It's built with circular investment in mind.
Big tech funds startups (through obfuscated legal and financial means) and that funding goes straight back into big tech cloud hosting and SaaS services.
Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#5There is no reason for it to be non-extensible either and depending on the use cases people might want to trade speed/optimization for more runtime customizations which will inherently be slower than pre-baked SIMD regex and whatnot.
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#6who is Jamie Brandon
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#7The vast majority of users - weighting by the profits they generate for software companies - obviously don't care about "slow".
And Munger's Law never cares if you hate its consequences.
Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#8As long as there’s a trade off between experimentation and performance, software will always be slightly too slow.
Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#9But software seems to be getting slower and less user friendly by the hour.
Because it's not built with client side optimization in mind any more. It's built with circular investment in mind. Big tech funds startups (through obfuscated legal and financial means) and that funding goes straight back into big tech cloud hosting and SaaS services.
Isn't this just enshittification? Where money is the driver, enshittification is just bound to happen.
Re: There's no reason for software to be slow anymore
#10100% sure software in the coming years will just feel slower and slower.