> I don’t want to need a 3 GHz machine to run a text editor
This annoys me as well. Visual Studio Code is about changing
individual bytes in tiny plain text files. I don't think it has
a single feature that didn't exist before. Yet its startup time
is somehow closer to that of a full-fledged IDE, almost as long
as the whole operating system needs to boot. Same with websites;
a freshly configured email client can download a thousand
messages from the server in a shorter period than it takes to
load most news articles in the browser.
And the most baffling thing to me is that such things are so
widely accepted. I've seen many users shrugging it off with a
"that's just how computers are" mindset; many things are
implemented so badly people don't even expect them to work
properly.
This may sound a lot like "old man yells at cloud" material, but
in the end it can't be denied performance is often at least an
order of magnitude away from where it could be - my current
laptop has 32 times as much RAM as my first PC, and it still
swaps just as frequently.
This annoys me as well. Visual Studio Code is about changing individual bytes in tiny plain text files. I don't think it has a single feature that didn't exist before. Yet its startup time is somehow closer to that of a full-fledged IDE, almost as long as the whole operating system needs to boot. Same with websites; a freshly configured email client can download a thousand messages from the server in a shorter period than it takes to load most news articles in the browser.
And the most baffling thing to me is that such things are so widely accepted. I've seen many users shrugging it off with a "that's just how computers are" mindset; many things are implemented so badly people don't even expect them to work properly.
This may sound a lot like "old man yells at cloud" material, but in the end it can't be denied performance is often at least an order of magnitude away from where it could be - my current laptop has 32 times as much RAM as my first PC, and it still swaps just as frequently.