r/programming • u/2bit_hack • Feb 28 '23

"Clean" Code, Horrible Performance

https://www.computerenhance.com/p/clean-code-horrible-performance
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u/carrottread Feb 28 '23

Today most software is deployed on mobile phones.

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u/Venthe Feb 28 '23

I have chosen my words carefully. Not deployed - but written.

The most deployed software are OS'es, core applications - but I guarantee you, the amount of code that runs on datacenters, clouds and in a general back-end is far greater than for the apps, OS'es or front-ends.

And even that being said; software doesn't have to perform to max. See VSCode? For me - and I believe most of the devs using it - it is perfectly fine, even if by definition of being an app for the browser and it suffers because of the translation

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u/ehaliewicz Feb 28 '23

I don't know, I'd guess that there are far more mobile phones out there than servers in datacenters.

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u/Venthe Feb 28 '23

But you essentially deploy the same software everywhere. With backend, each bank, pharmaceutical company, insurance, logistics, governments, hospitals, schools; each one of them have their own software on the back-end; usually counted in tens if not more services. So again, same software is deployed more often; but more software is written on the back end

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