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 👏 seriously, not enough programmers even think about this stuff

i had to contend with resource burning software most of my life and even now i have 64gb of DDR4 3200mhz memory and some shit just turns my CPU into a space heater

i watch my young colleague with his 7th gen mobile intel processor waiting for rust shit to build and even Go stuff to build and it's like *fingers tapping*...

meanwhile, my favourite computer at the age of 15, the Amiga, was able to do tear-free 2d graphics at 50hz, and still these ninnies write code that layers abstraction upon abstraction and they don't even notice because they buy the latest... i bet they all have 256gb memory and dual raid NVMes now and EPYC processors or something

i mean, seriously guys, performance, and resource use matters

what's even more hilarious is seeing this kind of compilation and runtime resource squandering with "green" blockchain shit, now that is the utter height of hypocrisy and stupidity