alt Hacker NewsYour criticism contradicts itself.
He's saying that the software seems free, but is so inefficient that it bloats other costs to run it. And he never said he wanted to replace $2K/month with $10/month.
Your criticism contradicts itself.
He's saying that the software seems free, but is so inefficient that it bloats other costs to run it. And he never said he wanted to replace $2K/month with $10/month.
I'm not saying it's so bad I don't recommend it, quite the opposite; but these things can be written in more performant languages. There's no reason why a cron job scheduler requires 500 mb of ram in idle. Same for the analytics. That is just a waste of resources.
Software can be drastically way less resource intensive, there is no excuse outside of wanting to exacerbate the climate crises.
This period of our history in the profession will be seen as a tremendous waste of resources and effort.