treacle

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It's much heavier than what we had with Delphi/VB, it feels like wading through treacle in comparison.

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a pale cane syrup

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noun

a pale cane syrup

noun

writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for treacle.

noun

a pale cane syrup

noun

writing or music that is excessively sweet and sentimental

Example sentences

It's much heavier than what we had with Delphi/VB, it feels like wading through treacle in comparison.

Morrison’s response to this has been lacking in its effectiveness and treacle-like in its speed.

After you get use to Eclipse's intellisenseque features, using Xcode is like wading through treacle.

The encryption upgrade a few years ago killed all of them but made the cable boxes run as slowly as treacle when it came to epg or channel switching

Sometimes I just need to access something which is only available on one of those sites, turning the browser into treacle.

I think what GP is saying is that there has been a paradigm shift away from unintuitive maximalist apps that are fast once learnt to intuitive minimalist apps that are slow as treacle because everything is in size 16pt font and designed for the first time user.

Buried in the paragraphs of treacle is an important point about supposed "meritocracy":"Having been a good student, no matter how good the reputation of the school—and most of the good schools, we are coming to learn, are good chiefly in reputation—is no indication of one's quality or promise as a leader.