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Totally feel your pain here. I think a lot of has to do with current JS tech- React, by design, trades off performance for developer efficiency.

I'm sensitive to latency.. first thing I do when I setup a new android phone is go into the developer settings and speed up all animations.

For our own company [0], we also treat speed as a top feature, though it's not something that's easily to market. It's something that power users appreciate. I even wrote a similar blog post [1] to this. The magic number, from what I've found, is 100ms. If you can respond to a user action in 100ms, it feels instant to the user.

0: https://www.enchant.com

1: https://www.enchant.com/speed-is-a-feature




Sounds like a good company to work in! :)

I would immediately apply but I'm not interested in Ruby or HTML/CSS anymore (although I still know the last two rather well and plan on making a return there to author my own blog theme).

Main focus are Elixir and Rust -- the latter exactly because I want to make efficient and ultra-fast software. Also very invested and averagely skilled in DevOps / sysadmin activities.

I hope there are more companies like yours out there -- and that yours is thriving!




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