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robin3390

421 points

Following

46

Bound to a single CPU

33

Asynchronous programming is the worst

32

Non-Java clients are second-class citizens

22

So easy to learn, good practices are hard to find

20

Horribly inconsistent

16

Owned by a company with their own agenda

15

Javascript is the New PHP

15

Scalability is not infinite

14

Poor raw performance

13

Hard to keep up-to-date if you customize things

13

Plugins are of mixed quality

9

No ability to monitor memory utilitization

9

Not as many integrations as Slack

8

User experience never as good as a native app

7

Branching and tagging use tons of disk space

7

7

Choice of map providers

7

6

Becomes your single point of failure

5

Configuration must be done first, not by your code

5

Bad at package versioning and being deterministic

4

Doesn't act like a Mac app

4

Not possible to perform HTTP redirects

4

Paste curl commands into Paw

4

Not multithreaded

4

4

Follows the Ruby Style Guide by default

3

Extremely poor CPU performance

3

Follower databases

3

Items can be ignored in the UI

3

Massive disk space usage

3

Adobe Updater to slow you down even more

3

Automatic repo discovery

3

3

Dataclips for sharing queries

3

The worst indicator noises of any app ever

3

Limited Jekyll plugins

3

2

Not for multi-process of multithreaded apps

2

No support for SSHFP records

2

Constantly trying to upsell you

2

Does not work like a Mac app

2

Master-master replication using Multi-AZ instance

2

Submodule support

2

Gitflow support

2

Interactive stage or discard by hunks or lines

2

Uses standard git terminology and methods

2

Github integration

2

Full featured client

2

Geo-based routing only works with AWS zones

2

Terrible UI on mobile

2

Never as good as a native app

2

PostgreSQL forking and following

2

Can review sent messages

2

2

Creates code for any language or framework

2

Can be used to apply good security to the whole API

1

Google Authenticator-compatible

1

Replication kills CPU and battery

1

Development environment that kills your battery

1

Parallel builds for slow test suites

1

Even harder to debug than Javascript

1

Great ecosystem of addons

1

Great performance compared to EC2 or DO

1

Limited concurrent queries

1

Combines coverage from multiple/parallel test runs

1

No authentication; cannot be used over Internet

1

Pay per message

1

Very inexpensive

1

1

Code structure makes reuse difficult