 i think you can explain some of the "software is getting slower and worse" plotline by saying that most modern startups are speedrunning product development and - correctly - judge that speed & reliability are actually low on their users’s list of priorities but that doesn't really explain why, say, google, can't ship performant web apps or slack doesn't switch to tauri or a native renderer or whatever 6 comments
@tmcw Gotta show it will increase revenue and the project is already sufficiently profitable! @dbreunig half of my left-economic social media sphere is angry that "companies are maximizing profits at the cost of everything" and the other half is angry that "startups are burning investor money and never make a profit” :) @tmcw Those two things are definately related! There was a lack of oxygen to create a sustainable startup because you were competing with VC-funded, growth-over-all behemoths. To compete with them you had to be laser focused on profits and have no waste. And now, with higher rates, those growth-over-all companies have to become suddenly profit focused. So a lot gets cut. Also, Google's incentives are fundamentally broken because, "sufficiently profitable" means, "could be comparable to AdSense"  @tmcw as someone once said, broke gets fixed, but crappy is forever. It’s trite but I think it’s accurate. There is no incentive in most of these huge orgs to do these. Obviously there are a lot of complicated things that I don’t know behind the scenes but I suspect it mostly boils down to this. Nobody is going to get promoted for switching to Tauri but they might get fired if they try and it takes longer than expected or goes badly, since electron is the devil they all know. 🤷 |
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@tmcw It feels like Google stopped giving a shit years ago.