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Fallacies that advocate software bloat (Miscellaneous)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 25.12.2025, 09:09

Some people (proudly!) have an aversion to "old" things, even if "older" works perfectly fine (or better!). Apple seems to give up on things after seven years. Java seems to deprecate 10+ year-old code. Even Linux now only supports being built with GCC 8 at minimum.

The other bad idea is always "hardware is cheap" (e.g. RAM), but that is clearly not true anymore. RAM prices are going WAY up! I honestly hope this causes some of them to optimize their software more instead of being wasteful. Some people (even Linus himself) say that unused RAM is wasted, but the idea that you can (or should) infinitely add more RAM to x64 is just plain bonkers.

On UNIX, ed would read the whole file into memory. Thus, sed was born to only read a line at a time (for bigger files). Gone are the days when slim software was valuable. Gone are the days of trying to cram something useful into CP/M (or DOS 640k or IA-32's 4 GB of RAM). Firefox doesn't even make 32-bit builds on Linux anymore.

I'm not really raging, but it's sad how bloated we've gotten. Optimization takes time, and some people just aren't willing to do it.

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