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Recommends nv-vn · 2020-05 · on “Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?”

It may be true that people are partially looking back in rose-tinted glasses, but there's more than just an inkling of truth to their side. Casey Muratori (game developer for the Witness) has a really good rant [1] about bloat in Visual Studio specifically, where he demonstrates load times & the debugger UI updating today vs on an Pentium 4 running XP. Whether or not you attribute the performance difference to new features in Win10/VS, it's worth considering the fact that workflows are still being impacted so significantly on modern hardware. We were able to extract 100s of times more out of hardware and gave it up for ??? [1] [this video]

Recommends yakubin · 2021-08 · on “Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?”

I try to use a debugger whenever I can. Unfortunately, I develop on Linux, so the debugger situation here is awful. Basically almost all debuggers are based on gdb or lldb in true Unix fashion parsing text to generate a GUI... They tend to break really fast IME, since text doesn't provide good stability/reliability guarantees (no type checking, no nothing) and even when they do work, there is a lot of visual delay in the feedback loop, which makes them a pain to use. Another problem is that often the debug builds of things at work run too slow to be practical, or they're too big to fit on the target device. My use of debugger at work usually boils down to getting and translating stack traces

Recommends jiggawatts · 2024-05 · on “Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?”

Casey Muratori has some great YouTube videos (a.k.a.: rants) about the end-user visible performance degradation over the last two decades despite computers becoming 10-100x faster by various metrics. E.g.: Visual Studio Rant [this video] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run? [LINK] The root cause is that Microsoft simply doesn't have performance as a priority. It's not a KPI for (almost) anyone, certainly nobody in the desktop teams. Upper management doesn't prioritize input latency over telemetry or advertising "features". It's that simple. There's no pressure, no rejection of slow code, no metrics, no pride in good engineering. If it barely functions, it's good enough to ship.[1] Microso

Cites jstimpfle · 2020-04 · on “Playstation Architecture: A Practical Analysis”

> Which is why I find so ironic that many still think only languages like Assembly, C or C++ have a place in IoT on devices like ESP32. Short answer, Parkinson's law. When I browse the Web, open my Windows File Explorer, open Photoshop, open Visual Studio, open just a graphical application that needs GPU acceleration, or do whatever thing that should not be an issue, I find that Parkinson's law very much applies. [this video] [this video] [LINK] Wtf. Did you see how fast VS6 started on a machine from almost 20 years ago. Today I get depressed whenever I need to open Visual Studio, and I don't even know that I use any more functionality that wasn't available 20 years ago. Many many programmers (in my p

Cites miltondts · 2021-06 · on “Your CPU may have slowed down on Wednesday”

> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples? Here is one concrete example: visual studio startup and debugging. Source: [this video] Maybe I could start collecting examples. I never did because it is so obvious. I mean, have you never updated android/iOS/windows on the same hardware? Regarding the "exactly" part in you sentence. Why would more features equal less performance? The only possible reason I can see this happening, is if you have features that run in parallel. Otherwise it's just another callback/if etc. That is, something to be triggered by the user that should have imperceptible impact (slightly more pressure on t

Cites dmitriid · 2021-11 · on “Making life easier for newcomers to the .NET ecosystem”

Tried Visual Studio 22 Preview. It couldn't run a debugger because "property program isn't defined". Apparently you need to specify some launch.json file god knows where, and god knows why. VSCode kinda works (but also creates a launch.json file somewhere). Rider just works. If it creates something somewhere, I couldn't care less (as I couldn't care less for any other IntelliJ product which tend to just work). Also. Obligatory rant by Casey Muratori on Visual Studio: [this video]

Cites garaetjjte · 2022-01 · on “Does Visual Studio rot the mind? (2005)”

It would be fine but it is slow. Watch window refreshes and responds to expanding trees like it is traversing dozens of gigabytes on every single action. (if you enjoy watching rants there's one: [this video] )

Cites Ygg2 · 2022-04 · on “Unreal vs. Unity Opinion”

> Yep, a gross and incorrect one, invented only to advance an argument that doesn't match reality. Performance and ms-per-frame is still highly critical in AAA-land, I beg to differ it's not an incorrect one. AAA Titles (+ if I did play them): Destiny - Review say perf OK. Elden Ring(+) - Performance Ok on consoles on release it was a slideshow. It ran like garbage. Personally I think it's a clusterfuck GTA V(+) - Had a huge performance blunder. Released for n-thienth time. Good performance today for game that was released in 2013. FIFA/NFL/Sports game - Runs ok. It's the same game as year X-1 except with some tweaks (like microtransactions and ads). Call of Duty - Review while perf is Ok, i