Troed Sångberg on Nostr: In the beginning of the 2000s mobile phone manufacturers started adding Java to their ...

In the beginning of the 2000s mobile phone manufacturers started adding Java to their platforms. This meant that game developers could get code onto the phones much more easily, but a lot of developers at said mobile phone manufacturers sneered at "that slow Java stuff".

They were in for a rude awakening a few years later when it turned out that JIT on a modern CPU is able to optimize better than statically compiled C/C++, and they rapidly found themselves not keeping up to date on technological advancements was a bad decision.

This is a post about dansup (npub1xsv…q6he) refering to coding LLMs as "glorified autocomplete".

(Yes, I was there when assembler developers laughed at the idea that a C-compiler would ever be able to optimize better than them too)