More developers should internalize the fact that performance actually matters... at *LEAST* equal to "developer happiness". If they did, we'd have made more progress by now, rather than having to drag people, kicking and screaming, across the goal line
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Glimmer alone wasn't a fix, to my recollection. We had to wait for Glimmer 2.https://meta.discourse.org/t/upgrading-ember-to-2-10/52724 …
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I was using Glimmer as a shorthand to mean "various improvements we've made that leveraged the declarative nature of the syntax" My argument is that ergonomic APIs often have latent fast paths you can identify and optimize (and downplay or deprecate the slow paths)
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JavaScript got fast in part by turning with() into an aggressive deopt and turning direct eval() into a super-slow operation. The rest of the language was much more optimizable and the results shocked the pundits of the time.
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JavaScript is in billions of devices, with 4-5 major corporations pouring zillions of dollars into it. I agree there's a ton of low hanging perf fruit here, but who is there to harvest it? And factoring for anti-perf culture..
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it's like you're trying to solve world hunger on Twitter though.
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