> The time when showing text was done by the application writing a few bytes in VRAM is long gone. Related: just went to a news site that had this absolutely g

> The time when showing text was done by the application writing a few bytes in VRAM is long gone. Related: just went to a news site that had this absolutely gorgeous, readable font called "TiemposHeadline" for the headlines. That font was loaded through the @font-face interface of CSS, so that's probably somewhere in the ballpark of 1M. That I so casually navigate to find the name of the font and how its getting loaded is due to devTools, which is tens of megs of storage space plus whatever chunk of memory it's eating. I think examples like Doom are misleading. Those are essentially hand-compressed diamonds of software. Some of the resource-saving techniques used there are bona fide legends. It should come as no surprise that an increase in availability of RAM and storage space causes the software to accordion out to fill the available resources in return for ease-of-development. That said, I'm all for software minimalism movements as long as the functionality and usability remains roughly the same.