The clarification here is what I took away from his first post. I am not someone who is satisfied with just using technology and not knowing how it works underneath. This mindset doesn't actually benefit me in my actual day job but it's an itch I have to scratch. I have been using computers on and off (literally I gone for a few years without even owning a computer) since the late 90s, some of which I was programming, although I have only been "in the industry" for 6 years and I totally see how performance has dropped over time especially when things like Electron come into play. I see people using VS Code and Hyper terminal and even though those people are still productive in those applications, I shudder to think of all that waste. Of course unused RAM is wasted RAM but there must be some kind of critical mass of people using bloated applications where innovations are driven by their bloat, when it's completely unnecessary. If it wasn't for people trying to fight against this complexity like Drew, like suckless, like OpenBSD, like me and many others I wouldn't really like to see the outcome.
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The clarification here is what I took away from his first post. I am not someone who is satisfied with just using technology and not knowing how it works underneath. This mindset doesn't actually benefit me in my actual day job but it's an itch I have to scratch. I have been using computers on and off (literally I gone for a few years without even owning a computer) since the late 90s, some of which I was programming, although I have only been "in the industry" for 6 years and I totally see how performance has dropped over time especially when things like Electron come into play. I see people using VS Code and Hyper terminal and even though those people are still productive in those applications, I shudder to think of all that waste. Of course unused RAM is wasted RAM but there must be some kind of critical mass of people using bloated applications where innovations are driven by their bloat, when it's completely unnecessary. If it wasn't for people trying to fight against this complexity like Drew, like suckless, like OpenBSD, like me and many others I wouldn't really like to see the outcome.