[silverquiet]

I think my favorite interaction with a dev around this was when I was explaining how his java program looked like a big juicy target for the OOM killer and it had killed it in order to keep the system working. His response was, "I don't care about the system, I care about my program!" And he understood the irony of that, but it was a good reminder that we have somewhat different views and priorities.

[7bit]

A developer not caring about the system is why the file explorer is painfully slow today, compared to 15 years back.

If a programmes doesn't care about the system, I already know he's shit at his job.

[pjmlp]

That is basically WinUI/WinAppSDK, the whole WinRT stack and related dev experience, where even plain .NET is faster.

However the team will advertise it as performance, due to being written in C++.

Pity it gets slowed down by COM reference counting all over the place, which cannot be optimised away, and the application identity sandbox.