tl;dr I whine about faggoty reddit programmer types
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I'm weary of hearing people say 'don't optimize early...', not because it is bad advice, but because it is often their way of saying "I don't like optimizing...all optimizing is bad...it's the compilers job...who cares, computers are always getting faster". I find this attitude to be unscientific and ultimately destructive, it pushes the burden of technological advance to the Electrical/Electronic Engineers(and they do a fantastic job of it) instead of the programmers. I fear that programming is destined to splinter into different levels, with the majority on the highest levels(web apps etc) completely ignorant of any low level details, all the while berating compiler-writers and other low-level programmer types for being too performance-oriented.