>On one hand, Dennard Scaling (aka free lunch) is long gone, hardware landscape is getting increasingly fragmented and specialized out of necessity, software abstractions are getting leakier, forcing developers to be aware of the lowest levels of abstraction, hardware, for good performance.

There are lots of people using Javascript frameworks to build slow desktop and mobile software.

I wonder if the excess CO2 emitted by devices around the world using bloated software that has no need to be so (hullo MS Teams) could be calculated in terms of # of cross atlantic voyages of jets.