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Memory is running out, and so are excuses for software bloat
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Yeah, gonna be interesting. Software companies working on consumer software often don't need to care, because:
I can see somewhat of a shift happening for software that companies develop for themselves, though. At $DAYJOB, we have an application written in Rust and you can practically see the dollar signs lighting up in the eyes of management when you tell them "just get the cheapest device to run it on" and "it's hardly going to incur cloud hosting costs".
Obviously this alone rarely leads to management deciding to rewrite an application/service in a more efficient language, but it certainly makes them more open to devs wanting to use these languages. Well, and who knows what happens, if the prices for Raspberry Pis and cloud hosting and such end up skyrocketing similarly.
One of the main culprits in all of this is the Windows users themselves. How can poeple still degrade themselves like that? Stop installing Windows on your clients or servers...for the sake of humanity. You will do just fine without it, just gotta re-learn some controlls at most. Linux has been client friendly for YEARS now.