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OK, so it tells you how a very poorly written application - one which probably shouldn't be running on such a system in the first place - will perform. And it's useless for everyone else. Here, have an internet point.


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And it's terrible for performance, so much so that it can't be used everywhere errors may need to be returned.

I don't understand what's so bad about this as a program.

"Ironically it's design makes it also pretty bad for many other server applications."

Can you elaborate? genuinely curious


For building web applications. For anything else it sucks big time.

and frankly a system with "all kinds of performance problems" sounds like incompetence

long-lived garbage generally doesn't need to exist

Wonderful. It's not the GC it's you who's incompetent. Or maybe you're competent, but your app simply doesn't really need to exist. A more complete shit-HN-says comment I couldn't find if I went searching for it.


Looks almost completely useless. E.g. a few % of performance in exchange for presumably much worse debugging experience.

What a great description! It perfectly describes my impression.

Awful authoring experience for non-technical users. Which doesn't mean it's not excellent for certain use cases :)


One of the worst widely distributed and used pieces of software. There are many, many, crappies, buggier, pieces of software out there; it's just that nobody has to use them.

Their loss. If you don't consider where and how your software is going to run it's pretty much guaranteed to be garbage anyway.

It's really bad, and might as well be X lines of code away from Bacon

Net Applications are famous specifically for their incredibly wrong stats.

It's only awful for debugging because the tools are awful.

The program is useless w/o updates. Knowledge of it does nothing.

Does the author realize they just re-invented an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of a native desktop application?

Not to mention, the program can be completely bug free but still terrible when put in real life because any one of the 10,000 things about its intended use was unknown or not prioritized.

I believe the rants are directed at its crappy performance as yet another bloated web app masquerading as a native program.

Poor start-up time, terrible application bloat, uninspiring language with poor concurrency support, massive RAM requirements, everything XML, complex tuning required, what a nightmare.

No wonder the world is running towards Python and serverless as fast as they can...


I dread to think how much bad information it gives you whilst both you and it are incapable of realising it.

Ask it about niche topics, hell, ask it about NixOS configs. Hallucinating all kinds of functions that don't exist with absolute confidence, generating configs that mix programming languages.

It can't even get the basics right in most programming languages of whether to use hashes or slashes for comments in its output. It's complete shite.


And it's horribly buggy, slow, and terrible all-around.
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