>As the top reply to this mentioned, anyone can easily tell how much slower software is today even when computers and devices are so fast now! All in the name of "making code easy to reason about."
Yeah - it also doesn't crash my PC when an app segfaults, hell even video driver failing these days won't bring my system down. I don't need to restart my PC when I plug in a device. That's not really compatible with your childhood DOS games that enter kernel mode and talk to HW directly - you pay for abstractions - and it's a good tradeoff.
I can also have files with more than 5 character file names, and my FS can revert file changes and create snapshots.
These "good old days" people are just unrealistic, VIM is fast even today - but I prefer having a graphical representation of file tree with fancy icons and search. But that's just me and 99% of people out there.
Performance is a feature - and it's not a feature most people rank high untill it becomes an issue. As much as a minority of people here are crying about electron and HTML - a huge number of developers use VSCode daily and enjoy the approachability of a JS/DOM plugin ecosystem. VIM is free and available for decades now, and it has such amazing UX that the one of the most upvoted questions on SO was how to exit from it...
Slack is dog slow - and IRC has been freely available for decades, most people here use Slack daily. Who uses IRC anymore ?
So keep using your Emacs integrated window manager and stop bothering the rest of us :D
My point really isn't about luddite vs. anti-luddite, I'm talking about performance and how it affects users. Also, you're right that less performant or less elegant tools win out sometimes (like the good old mac vs windows debates before macos and apple in general made a come back) and that is due to a variety of reasons. That's fine, life is complicated and many factors affect who wins in life, it doesn't mean we can't still ask for better things though.
Still I don't know what bearing of all this has on the point I made above.
Yeah - it also doesn't crash my PC when an app segfaults, hell even video driver failing these days won't bring my system down. I don't need to restart my PC when I plug in a device. That's not really compatible with your childhood DOS games that enter kernel mode and talk to HW directly - you pay for abstractions - and it's a good tradeoff.
I can also have files with more than 5 character file names, and my FS can revert file changes and create snapshots.
These "good old days" people are just unrealistic, VIM is fast even today - but I prefer having a graphical representation of file tree with fancy icons and search. But that's just me and 99% of people out there.
Performance is a feature - and it's not a feature most people rank high untill it becomes an issue. As much as a minority of people here are crying about electron and HTML - a huge number of developers use VSCode daily and enjoy the approachability of a JS/DOM plugin ecosystem. VIM is free and available for decades now, and it has such amazing UX that the one of the most upvoted questions on SO was how to exit from it...
Slack is dog slow - and IRC has been freely available for decades, most people here use Slack daily. Who uses IRC anymore ?
So keep using your Emacs integrated window manager and stop bothering the rest of us :D