blowing up memory is something that i am always watching out for... i have seen C++ and haskell projects fail to build because of memory use... the fix was to run the compilation as a single thread

"worse" computers are increasingly 8gb now, not often you encounter anything smaller... even my 2 year old mobile has 8gb memory in it

the bloat problem WILL get worse over time, but i can assure you that javascript, web browsers, c++ et al, the staples of mainstream programming, will be the last to actually care about it

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Yeah, they don't care.

They be like,

If their computers are slow, let them buy MacBooks.

"let them buy macbooks" sounds very appropriate

I complained that an app was slowing down my phone and eating my data plan, and was told to buy a better phone and a better data plan.

The app was "free" , but it costed me €10/month for the data plan and would have require a new phone.

Got rid of the app, lowered the data plan again, happily using my old phone. The End.

People don't even realize that bad code is often why they keep needing new hardware.

Like Windows versus Linux Mint.

code quality and quality of languages altogether has declined in the last 20 years

the cost of cheap hardware is going down fast tho... this little mini box i got to run my bitcoin node came with 8gb memory and has an nvme socket in it, and usb-C one on front one on back... was 141 euro

but browsers, that's another thing, they are the mother asshole of all shitcode

chrome managed to dial that back a few years but it keeps on creeping

Mine has 1 GB. My phone is much faster.

well, my phone has 4 actually, i think, can't even see this in the interface lol, but the model does have 6 and 8gb variants

My phone also has 4.