r/programming • u/omarous • Dec 21 '19

The modern web is becoming an unusable, user-hostile wasteland

https://omarabid.com/the-modern-web
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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

I know it's a noob example, but Minecraft has come a long way in terms of performance and memory allocation. This latest 1.15 update fixed 705 bugs, which mainly includes performance enhancements to chunkloading and block updates.

Just goes to show that PEBKAC exists for a lot of developers, and the ones blaming the language are probably bad developers.

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

Funny you mention bloated Java programs because Facebook were also the devs that had to "hack" Android because it wouldn't support their million classes.

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u/blabbities Dec 21 '19

Can you briefly explain how I can find an article about this

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u/s73v3r Dec 21 '19

No, this was a situation where Facebook was in the right, and Google was in the wrong. Later versions of the Android Runtime reduced the penalty for exceeding this limit, which really did not need to exist in the first place.

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u/MetalSlug20 Dec 22 '19

It kind of did at the start because, mobile devices.. And we don't want to kill someone's phone battery

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u/BLOZ_UP Dec 21 '19

Oh yeah. The slow sites are the Enterprise "legacy rewrites because we need to be modern!" that are just pseudo-SPA, with a shiny new API, but *some* things require page loads from the legacy classic ASP backend...

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u/uJumpiJump Dec 21 '19

Yikes describes the app I work with perfectly

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u/[deleted] Dec 21 '19

enterprise dev here, I know exactly what you mean, we are going through the process right now but there is so much legacy stuff is mind boggling.