developers having powerful development hardware is actively harmful to usable software existing

there is literally an order of magnitude of power difference between the machines many developers use to create their software and the machines that their users will have - and that's assuming the users have brand new (but average) hardware

today's developers write software pretending that there will always be infinite resources, because the computers we have *let* them do that without consequences

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@ky0ko I avoid this problem by having a 7 year old laptop I can't afford to replace.

@confusedcharlot honestly even many 7 year old laptops still have features that let devs get away with this

a 7 year old laptop, if it is 64 bit, can still build modern compiler tools

an arm laptop manufactured today, if it is 32 bit, cannot

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