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Ask HN: Will programmers write more efficient code during the memory shortage?

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That’ll be a minor part of it. The whole Electron “ship a browser for each app” ideology will die first. Programmers will write more efficient algorithms if their employers tell them to trade time-to-market for hardware cost. Previously, it was trade hardware cost for time-to-market. "Programmers" don't make this decision, the product owner does. I disagree. Engineers choose the technical stack based on the specs. With LLMs, it's faster to ship even in a more verbose language like Go or Rust. The spec is the important part, though. If memory limitations are part of the spec, you're not going to choose a stack that will be too wasteful. Yes, but that doesn't determine the technical stack. It only narrows it down. You could just as well use C, C++, Rust or even Go depending on the device the program needs to run on. The device may have constraints as well but those are technical limitations and still not the responsibility of the product owner. Specs are business requirements.…

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