Re: This FOSS Thang :-)

On Tue, 12 Mar 2024 13:43:52 -0400, -hh wrote:

Fortunately, CPU power now easily exceeds the 80% use case demands, plus
storage has become quite cheap, which means that it isn't anywhere near
as important to have all code be so strongly optimized for performance
through minimized size to have a good (& good enough) UI.

I'm having a flashback to the late '90s. I was interested in Java as a
cross platform solution as were many. AWT wasn't the richest widget set
but it tied into the native UI and ran reasonably well. Then came Swing
which turned Java into a bloated, slow, piece of crap. The advice on the
Java forums was 'get a faster machine', not 'we should fix Swing'.

To this day you can always tell a Java app -- click on an icon and nothing
happens for a long, long time.