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Software quality would improve greatly if developers were forced to work on a device with a 10 year old CPU, 25G of storage, and 2GB of ram. The amount of resources necessary to do the simplest of operations is just bonkers. Not everyone has infinite disc space, and a never ending supply of RAM.
FFS.
@quixoticgeek The person who was working on the code before and after me came back to me with a question. I couldn't answer it immediately so I asked: <Can you show me the code you're talking about? You probably have it open onscreen, right?
<them> Yeah, I printed it out
<me> Hahahahah
<them> ...
<me>... Wait, did you really?
<them> yes.
<me> oh sorry.
Well, we went into his room and he had at least 10 pages of code to the walls of his office. And circled some stuff with colors
@quixoticgeek I have optimized scripts which analyzed hundreds of gigabytes of data on my 4GB RAM Laptop when a normal amount was 8GB or 16GB. It was the worst software quality you could imagine (software isn't even an adequate name). I reduced practically all resource usage (CPU, RAM, disk access) by huge amounts and introduced modularity and version control to the code.