Yeah, I find this stuff depressing. I see people jumping up and down over a demo of the Unreal-1 engine running at 0.04 fps in javascript and I think to myself, if my old compaq POS from the late nineties could run that engine without trouble, why can't my brand new Macbook do better, or at least the same?
It feels like we've redefined "progress" to mean "the same thing as 20 years ago, but worse"
More like the same thing as 20 years ago, but the dominant language is a LIS.. I mean a Schem... I mean it's a bit like Self.. look, it has garbage collection, a JIT, supports objects and goes somewhat fast. Oh, and it's used to drive a GUI made up of stringly-typed ... things that kind of looks like SGML and has no chance in hell of achieving good draw performance. But you can calculate fibonacci in CSS and get even worse performance than doing it at compile-time with C++ templates!
It feels like we've redefined "progress" to mean "the same thing as 20 years ago, but worse"