Fast Software, the Best Software

Posted by Paul Korm
Jul 30, 2019 at 05:42 PM

I read the Craig Mod piece, and a lot of blogosphere and commentariat responses, and came away thinking “yes, but…”. Mod focuses his ire at a bundle of software that are completely unrelated in intent and audience. Mod’s article seems written more to get ghits and page views than to offer a constructive assessment of the state of the art.

Sure, no one likes unpleasant and confusing software. (Without naming names, some of the developers who come onto this forum to flog their work have some pretty unintuitive stuff on offer.) But before trying, or buying, software it’s a good idea to have a clue about what it does and why someone would want to own it.

In recent been lucky to have the gelt to buy hardware above the median point of processing power, and sometimes more. With that, “speed” (which I suppose means responsiveness more than anything) has never been an issue. I buy a lot of software, because I like to CRIMP and I like independent developers, since I work in related fields. Maybe 10% of the time I delete something because it doesn’t cut it—but not because of speed. Usually because the developer seems to have misunderstood what someone in my line of work needs.