[Info-vax] openvms and xterm

[Grant Taylor]

On 4/22/24 19:15, motk wrote:
> I dunno, I'm not unintelligent but have you seen how much stress a 
> browser engine has to endure? Thousands of people with phds smash these 
> things to bits on the regular. Hundreds of thousands of people use 
> electron/react/whatever apps every day and never notice. Grousing about 
> this isn't a good look anymore.

How much more productive work is done with a contemporary web browser in 
2024 than in 2004 or even in 1998 (save for encryption)?

How much more productive work are computers doing in general in 2024 
than in 1994?

Have the frameworks and fancy things that are done in 2024 actually 
improved things?

I feel like there is massively disproportionately more computation power 
/ resources consumed for very questionable things with not much to show 
for it.  Think what could have been done in the mid '90s with today's 
computing resources.

As such, I believe that there is some room for grousing about many 
questionable practices today.



-- 
Grant. . . .