I was just thinking about coding inefficiency last night. No one seems to care anymore because more memory and processing power is always right around the corner. I think it should still matter.
We don’t care anymore. The company is not willing to pay for it. We still have non-IT managers picking project implementation dates by randomly choosing a date. We also have budget constraints now. There was a time I would go through programs to make them run better but I was told to stop because no one was requesting it.
Luckily for me, I retired.
It's not just coding.
Compiler design has gotten lax as well. Fix the compilers and I think the coding will follow.