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Twitter and Visual Studio Rant

Casey Muratori responds on-stream to a dismissive Twitter post by demonstrating how slow Visual Studio's startup and debugger watch window are, comparing it to much older software and machines. It is a long rant about software performance and bloat.

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Why HN readers recommended it

HN commenters cite it as the canonical concrete demonstration that modern developer tools got slower despite vastly faster hardware.

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel
Molly Rocket
Topic
software performance
Format
commentary
Level
general
HN recommenders in dataset
3
HN mentions in dataset
20
Recommendation years in dataset
2020–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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  • It may be true that people are partially looking back in rose-tinted glasses, but there's more than just an inkling of truth to their side. Casey Muratori (game developer for the Witness) has a really good rant [1] about bloat in Visual Studio specifically, where …

    nv-vn on Hacker News · 2020-05
    In Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?

  • I try to use a debugger whenever I can. Unfortunately, I develop on Linux, so the debugger situation here is awful. Basically almost all debuggers are based on gdb or lldb in true Unix fashion parsing text to generate a GUI... They tend to break …

    yakubin on Hacker News · 2021-08
    In Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?

  • Casey Muratori has some great YouTube videos (a.k.a.: rants) about the end-user visible performance degradation over the last two decades despite computers becoming 10-100x faster by various metrics. E.g.: Visual Studio Rant [VIDEO] How fast should an unoptimized terminal run? [LINK] The root cause is …

    jiggawatts on Hacker News · 2024-05
    In Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?

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