Pagedraw is shutting down and going open source
One absolute rule for success in software is that there are no absolute rules.<p>From their post mortem <a href="https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-building-a-compiler-startup-for-3-years-4473405161cd" rel="nofollow">https://medium.com/@gabriel_20625/technical-lessons-from-bui...</a><p>> Performance is never a justification for anything if you haven’t measured it<p>This just isn't true. Anyone with a reasonable amount of experience is often able to look ahead - well before any code is written - and see how performance could be better if road A is taken instead of road B.<p>Its madness in that case to blindly choose a road without even thinking about performance - even if it is unmeasurable and in the future.<p>There's more in the same vein:<p>> Go back to step 2 and make sure you completely ignore performance, because you probably haven’t.<p>Now I have to imagine that these guys don't genuinely believe what they wrote - but in that case, ditch the words "never" and "completely ignore" and go for something more reasonable.<p>(Of course that would make the phrasing less dramatic and click-baity, which is maybe what it takes to get eyeballs these days)