Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.
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if you're making a user-facing program, you should always design with the possibility that it will be run on some truly dogshit hardware and you should make sure that they still have a good experience. good computer hardware is a luxury on the world scale, even before the rampocalypse
related, but the answer to the question "who still uses {x} these days?" is almost always way, wayyyy more people than you think
Me when I got my commercial NAS with 7 years of support, I was thinking: "who even keeps hardware for this long?"
Me, 7 years later: "What do you mean EOL?!"
I certainly learned to care for and appreciate the hardware these years.
There's about 0.2% of people still using internet explorer, per one market share site I found.
Which works out to potentially millions of people.
I agree. Designing based on "Who uses x anymore?" Just reinforces the ever-increasing cost of computing.
That’s so why a lot of artists I know of when mixing, like to test their songs on stock/sub-par monitors. Not everyone has reference quality equipment and you want to make sure your song works just as well thumping with the windows down as with your hi-fi system.
I do my web development on a 2005 era windows XP machine without the unofficial SP4 because if it will run there (without silverlight) I know for damn sure it will run well on anything made today.