As a group, we have trained many, many programmers out of even considering performance with the proliferation of quotes like “premature optimisation is the root of all evil” ands ideas like “who cares, just get a faster computer/wait for hardware”.
Premature optimisation is bad, but there’s now so many devs who don’t do _any _ at all. They don’t improve any existing code, they’re not writing software that is amenable to later optimisation, inefficient architectures and unnecessary busywork abounds.
Are we surprised that years of “product first, bug fixes later, performance almost never” has left us with an ecosystem that is a disaster?
Premature optimisation is bad, but there’s now so many devs who don’t do _any _ at all. They don’t improve any existing code, they’re not writing software that is amenable to later optimisation, inefficient architectures and unnecessary busywork abounds.
Are we surprised that years of “product first, bug fixes later, performance almost never” has left us with an ecosystem that is a disaster?