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0 pointsdijit3y ago0 comments

I still think of these inefficient things as being great multipliers of potential, even if wasteful.

FWIW: I'm probably one of the most "IT Conservative" people on this site, I still believe in sysadmins, dislike systemd, hate electron etc;

But there is something to be said about developer productivity: if you can build a prototype in 10 days when it would have taken 10 weeks that can be a huge differentiator between companies; it means you can make 6x more prototypes in the same time window, or work through different iterations of the same idea.

That's hugely beneficial.

I think if you treat inefficient things this way (I consider Ruby/Python in the same way) then we all benefit, test your ideas then go for gold on a more efficient platform.

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skohan3y ago

Yeah I think I am in a similar camp. As a person involved in product development, I love the speed at which web technologies allow us to move.

As a computer scientist, I can't help but cringe at the massive amount of collective inefficiency in the current state of computing.

But don't get me wrong, I'd rather have the inefficient thing which creates value than nothing at all.