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Twitter and Visual Studio Rant

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Software performance & optimizationTesting, debugging & developer tools

What it is

Casey Muratori responds on-stream to a dismissive Twitter post by demonstrating how slow Visual Studio's startup and debugger watch window are, comparing it to much older software and machines. It is a long rant about software performance and bloat.

Why Hacker News recommends it

HN commenters cite it as the canonical concrete demonstration that modern developer tools got slower despite vastly faster hardware.

  • 3 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 0 strong recommendations
  • first 2020, last 2026

What HN commenters said

  1. “Casey Muratori (game developer for the Witness) has a really good rant [1] about bloat in Visual Studio specifically”

    Compares VS load and debugger update times with a Pentium 4.

    nv-vn, 2020-05 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Is there still a place for native desktop apps?”

  2. “The whole video may be also worth watching if you like rants”

    Shows smooth RemedyBG debugging versus a degraded Visual Studio debugger.

    yakubin, 2021-08 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: Do You Use a Debugger?”

  3. “Casey Muratori has some great YouTube videos (a.k.a.: rants) about the end-user visible performance degradation over the last two decades”

    Casey Muratori on performance degradation despite far faster hardware.

    jiggawatts, 2024-05 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: What makes Windows 11 perform much worse than Windows XP?”

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Topics: visual studio, debugger, software bloat, performance, casey muratori

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