"Value generation" is a term I would be somewhat wary of.
To me, in this context, it's similar to drive economic growth on fossil fuel.
Whether in the end it can result in a net benefit (the value is larger than the cost of interacting with it and the cost to sort out the mess later) is likely impossible to say, but I don't think it can simply be judged by short sighted value.
This reminds me of Perkeep, but I understand this is more focused on the presentation of the data, while Perkeep was on the data storage.
But maybe they could be integrated, or at least support each other's formats.
Ok, sorry for assuming your intent. No, its nothing like that. They are all the distro provided stable versions installed as "regular" applications.
And it seem to be the start up process that differs, as putting them all in a ram-disk does not alleviate the issue, and restarting the app cuts the time in ~1/2 but equally for each distro.
My guess, as I said first is what default libraries as loaded, and possibly how they are configured. I do however find it strange that this has not been mentioned elsewhere as I've been struck bu this difference for years, when I happen to load a pure Debian install (not what I usually use).
I would not say that the C# runtime is slow, but it is a JIT compiler that is not optimizing for start-up (as far as I know), and it is "doing a lot of work" at runtime to achieve the eventual performance it is capable of.
Start-up time is not the most important property for a lot of services, but for user applications it's pretty high up there, so if the underlying runtime is not optimizing for that this shows a disconnect in the choice of technology stack.
I'm quite impressed of both .NET and OpenJDK in some metrics, but it is often not resource efficient, which is something I do value.
One example of an application that works as I would expect others to do is MuPDF, Being able to open 20MB+ PDFs in 1/10 seconds on a 10 years+ old laptop.
By the way, does anyone know why Debian launches LibreOffice so much quicker than Ubuntu, Fedora or Archlinux (or any other distro I've tested with)? In Debian its 1-2 seconds, and the others 5-10 seconds. I mean it could be included extensions or how they are configured, but I'm honestly interested.
Note that modern versions of MS Paint (with few improvements over the original) takes seconds to load on a quad core 3+ghz machine, loaded from an SSD.
I don't think so. I think it's just the way Rob et al. used the term from their previous experience.
It's not meant to mean operating systems language, nor embedded systems language.
Rather for writing parts of a systems, such as servers. I would say that the definition is not that far away for Java or C#, but the expectation is simply that it would be "lower level" components of a system, including unix like utilities.
While I don't think I would confuse the sensation with anxiety, it kind of breeds anxiety. I always feel my heart beat, both from the chest, blood vessels and by small "muscle spasms" throughout my body, is there any substance, preferably legal, that can subdue this to some degree?
I'm not having high pressure or high resting pulse and it's so severe that, while not externally visible, causes for example a squeaky bed to squeak in rhythm with my heart beat.
I've had a prescription for Atomoxetin and it had some "body calming" effect but in some sense amplified the aforementioned effect.