alt Hacker NewsThere is nothing even functionally fine about this. The me who has programmed for a 4mhz computer with 128kb of RAM is crying inside. It's a fucking trivial interface for writing and displaying text and sending HTTP requests. You could have that displayed ~instantly on an 80s home PC. Now we have home computers that can execute somewhere between billions and trillions of instructions per second and yet a task that should take <10ms takes 4500ms. Our industry has become an absolute embarrassment.
Thank you. The apps created like this are absolutely an embarrassment. But to me the bigger horror is if people are going to be convinced to develop the critical libraries and infrastructure in the same way. Then we'll have bloat and rot in the deeper levels and everything will become exponentially worse and unreliable. It makes me so sad that people can't see this.