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Comment on: Pi's Minimalism Is Its Advantage
Consider this:- I regularly have 10+ instances of my harness running or idling on my laptop.- My laptop is often at near-100% CPU and memory usage due to the (irreducible) cost of the development tools and environment.- I often (50% of the time) downclock my laptop’s CPU to 1-2 GHz to save battery and/or reduce noise and thermals while charging.- I sometimes run my harness on machines that are low-power, low-RAM single-board computers.If my harness was written in JS, this would be both annoying in terms of responsiveness and limiting in terms of how much work I can do in parallel. This is why