@streakmachine Postgres folk also criticize MySql. IIRC it was nearer a key-value store than a proper SQL database for some years.
/@matigo
@matigo It gets worse before it gets better. It’s morning that really gets me, though.
@matigo Yeah. Most of the big fixes have been at the OS level. Like with Android’s Doze & Doze on the Go, or Apple’s integration of QOS and timer coalescing into the heart of the system. These basically have the supervisor step in and force things to behave better.
I keep hoping to learn something about power-optimized algorithms & data structures, but it seems power use is too tied to details to model in any way that would give you a “big-O-Joules” on par with the time/space models we use now. (And of course the time ones kinda suck at factoring in multi-level memories.)
/@streakmachine
@larand LiveJournal supported that, but it didn’t line up well with my needs to use their markup in posts.
/@nitinkhanna
@streakmachine The software has a big role to play in battery drain. Those wireless radios love to gobble watts.
/@matigo
@matigo Nah, makes perfect sense. A one-person project probably doesn’t run into the problems that drove React into existence.
It’s like everyone rushing into microservices and k18s and “is it Webscale?” before they even have paying customers. “Aspirational millstones.”
/@nitinkhanna @gtwilson
@matigo React is one of several implementations following this logic:
- when a large and sufficiently complex UI is rendered client-side, it gets hard and fragile to coordinate the needed details using something like jQuery
- it’s both simpler and more readable to express the UI as a function from app state to DOM
- but just rebuilding the whole DOM every render cycle is too slow
- so let’s rebuild a virtual dom, diff, and then update only the bits that actually changed on the actual DOM.
It’s not terribly new at this point, and it’s thin enough that you could write a working but less performant version yourself in not much time.
It gets overused for things that don’t fit the assumptions of that logic - people love their golden hammers - but that’s humans. ??♀
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