Typometer: A tool to measure and analyze the visual latency of text editors
Seeing as how this and similar articles regularly crop up here, I&#x27;m curious as to when this started and why nothing is done about it. I still regularly use my 14 MHz Amiga 1200 for recreational programming and I _never_ experience input lag on that machine.<p>Thinking back, the first time I noticed input lag was on a Mac LCIII running Word in the mid-90s. Then for a long long time I didn&#x27;t come across any particularly noticeable latency, except on really crappy websites and in really crappy Java apps. Then Microsoft bought Skype and started working their magic on it, and this seemed to open some kind of floodgate of high-latency crap. That&#x27;s not even a decade ago.<p>After that, little by little, everything seemed to slow down noticeably. We&#x27;ve now reached a level when this is seemingly normal. Even programmer colleagues who are my age and older are looking at me like I&#x27;m curious when I complain about the latency. I&#x27;d say something toxic about Electron here, but it&#x27;s prevalent in native programs as well.<p>Have things really gotten so much more complex since 2010 that we can no longer put a character on screen in a timely fashion?