Programmer Humor

Oh, they have new functionality. It's all in the back end, detailing everything you do and sending it to the parent company so they can monetize your life.

Performance/optimisation wise is an environmental catastrophe..

Most resources are not consumed by wonky code or dependencies. Most resources are consumed by images and sounds.

Because companies give zero fucks. They will tell you they need tons of IT people, when in reality they want tons of underpaid programmers. They want stuff as fast and cheap as possible. What doesn't cause immediate trouble is usually good enough. What can be patched up somehow is kept running, even when it only leads you further up the cliff you will fall off eventually.

Management is sometimes completely clueless. They rather hire twice as many people to keep some poorly developed app running, than to invest in a new, better developed app, that requires less maintenance and provides a better user experience. Zero risk tolerance and zero foresight.

It still generates money, you keep it running. Any means are fine.

It's all because of Electron, unnecessary libraries, and just bad coders. Asus Armoury Crate weighs a lot and is so slow, but it's basically a simple app. Total Commander has much more features, but it's fast, lightweight, and consumes 9 MB of RAM.

isn't it a combination of younger developers not learning to programme under the restrictions of limited memory and cpu speed, on top of employers demanding code as soon as possible rather than code that is elegant or resource efficient or even slightly planned out

I'd argue that deploying from one codebase to 3+ different platforms is new functionality, although not for the end user per se.

I wish though that more of the web apps would come as no batteries included (by default or at least as a selectable option), i.e. use whatever webview is available on the system instead of shipping another one regardless of if you want it or not.

#include "the_entire_fucking_internet.h"

Usually, instead of having 8-bit art, you have epic songs and very high definition textures. That is a good deal of why.

It's nearly all just using a whole library instead of the specific single function thats actually required, because few people are actually writing any code these days.

Fucking Chrome/Electron is why.

I honestly wouldn't mind that if they could all use the exact same runtime so the apps could be a few MB each, but nooooo.

It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.

Simple reason - dependencies.

Modern devs dump any dependency and sub-dependency under the sun into their project and don't bother about optimizing it. That's how you end up with absurdly large applications. Especially electron is a problem in this regard.

You can still write optimized and small software. However, for most businesses, it's just not worth their time. Rather using an additional couple hundred megabytes of dependencies on the client system.

Because the app stores keep adding new requirements that you have to add code to deal with and it gets worse every year and seemingly every day.

Electron everywhere.