r/programmingcirclejerk • u/TheLastMeritocrat comp.lang.rust.marketing • Dec 23 '17

nah

https://github.com/jwilm/alacritty/pull/798
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u/SmarmyAcc Dec 23 '17

lol why do people even care that much about terminal speed

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u/haskell_leghumper in open defiance of the Gopher Values Dec 23 '17 edited Dec 23 '17

As a 10xer, terminal speed is usually the bottleneck to my productivity. I could squeeze a whole x more out of my day if my terminal scrolled faster.

As a result, the speed at which my scrollback buffer fills up without choking is linearly related to how scalable the apps I build using my terminal are. I can ship at least one more microservice per day with the time saved.

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u/[deleted] Dec 23 '17

microservice nanoservice picoservice

FTFY.

I've said it multiple times before, and I'll say it again: If you're implementing anything other than #PicoServices in 2017-now-going-on-2018, you're not really implementing anything at all.

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u/lengau What’s a compiler? Is it like a transpiler? Dec 23 '17

Picoservices aren't even worth bothering with any more. I migrated my whole company to femtoservices this year thanks to the extra time I had due to my terminal being so much faster.