Fast Software, the Best Software

I fully agree. I loathe slow software. I hate bloat. I love fast software. As a developer, I'm completely, even irrationally, obsessed with speed, performance optimization, and profiling. I wish more developers felt the same way.

No, no software is the best software.

BTW, the title should say "(2019)".

Honestly, I'm in partially disagree camp. What matters is how much time it saves.

A good WYSIWYG editor will run circles around the fastest text editor. Even if WYSIWYG is a bit slower to open.

It would be preferable for software to be more focused and faster over time, but that doesn't attract people to it.

Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.

This is slop; I stopped reading after this line:

> Fastness in software is like great margins in a book — makes you smile without necessarily knowing why.

EDIT: I didn't say _AI_ slop; it's just not well-written. In addition to the word salad quoted above, there's unsubstantiated jumps in logic and opinions that undercut the premise (e.g. "Speed and reliability are often intuited hand-in-hand" being followed later by an example of a "faster, simpler" application having "reliability issues"; or typewriters being "slow in a relative sense" while then praising simplicity of operation, task-focused design, and observability of state over speed); it feels like the author wanted to list out some random complaints but failed to tie them together in a way that felt worth reading.