I'm actually excited about the future of Classical Computers because a Reckoning is coming.
Writhe's law has held, As computers have become faster software has become more and more abstracted and inefficient. Standards slipped and what many people call "Acceptable" like Discord I hold to be unacceptable. Electron Apps are so fucking inefficient that I've outright boycotted using them.
The benefits of Moore's law have been squandered. We might have faster PCS, but they have to manage code that never bothered to prioritize performance. The general attitude which was outright even tolerated and promoted by Corporate empire was essentially "eh fuck it, if it's slow now it won't be in 24 months when the next generation of hardware ships."
But now that Intels Panther lake has us down to 1 point 8 nanometers we're in striking distance of 1 nanometer CPUS below which quantum tunneling impacts start to lay havoc on Electron flow and Electricity no longer behaves because it starts jumping all over the place instead of obeying the microscopic pathways we've laid down for it.
In essence Hard Physical constraints are coming and there aren't many more advancements in it to be had which is why so many jobs are moving onto the GPU because every GPU can pack into it way way more cores due to how massive they are.
In the old days if you were a Developer you had to respect the Hardware your system was designed for, or at least, the hardware your users used.
Discord might be "Acceptable" for millions of people, but it isn't for me.
This is why a LOT OF JavaScript Developers are migrating towards Rust and WebAssembly is coming where JavaScript is kept to a minimum to manipulate the DOM field and everything else is Rust.
GPUS might have more room to give than CPU and same with Memory speeds but other than that there aren't many more iterations to go before hard physical constraints fundamentally put an End to Moore's law on Classical hardware.
But there is some good news, Software has been designed without performance being a priority for years so Reinventing the Wheel in more efficient languages is- well. The future.
Because Developers won't be able to keep kicking the can down the Road. There's potentially millions of dollars at stake for essentially managing messaging- But. if you Write a messenger in Rust and it's a lot faster and does what discord did, You could potentially destroy their entire businrss model very quickly
I don't use VS code or codium, I use pure VIM on the commandline.
The benefits of Moore's law have been squandered. We might have faster PCS, but they have to manage code that never bothered to prioritize performance. The general attitude which was outright even tolerated and promoted by Corporate empire was essentially "eh fuck it, if it's slow now it won't be in 24 months when the next generation of hardware ships."
But now that Intels Panther lake has us down to 1 point 8 nanometers we're in striking distance of 1 nanometer CPUS below which quantum tunneling impacts start to lay havoc on Electron flow and Electricity no longer behaves because it starts jumping all over the place instead of obeying the microscopic pathways we've laid down for it.
In essence Hard Physical constraints are coming and there aren't many more advancements in it to be had which is why so many jobs are moving onto the GPU because every GPU can pack into it way way more cores due to how massive they are.
In the old days if you were a Developer you had to respect the Hardware your system was designed for, or at least, the hardware your users used.
Discord might be "Acceptable" for millions of people, but it isn't for me.
This is why a LOT OF JavaScript Developers are migrating towards Rust and WebAssembly is coming where JavaScript is kept to a minimum to manipulate the DOM field and everything else is Rust.
GPUS might have more room to give than CPU and same with Memory speeds but other than that there aren't many more iterations to go before hard physical constraints fundamentally put an End to Moore's law on Classical hardware.
But there is some good news, Software has been designed without performance being a priority for years so Reinventing the Wheel in more efficient languages is- well. The future.
Because Developers won't be able to keep kicking the can down the Road. There's potentially millions of dollars at stake for essentially managing messaging- But. if you Write a messenger in Rust and it's a lot faster and does what discord did, You could potentially destroy their entire businrss model very quickly
I don't use VS code or codium, I use pure VIM on the commandline.
