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I’m curious why it matters to you. 55MB is a trivially inexpensive amount of storage and bandwidth in 2019. It simply doesn’t make a practical difference to the
by Veen 7y ago
I’m curious why it matters to you. 55MB is a trivially inexpensive amount of storage and bandwidth in 2019. It simply doesn’t make a practical difference to the vast majority of people who will use this whether it’s 55MB or 5MB.
- badsectoracula 7y agoIt is a hint that the code sucks.
- 8note 7y agoIs it? I feel like it's a question of prioritizing. Why focus on application size when you could instead polish a feature?
- badsectoracula 7y agoYes it is, if someone doesn't care about creating bloated applications they wont care about creating good applications either - which includes said polishing.
- Veen 7y agoA lack of concern for "bloating" does not entail a lack of concern for user experience. Optimizing for size may be less of a priority when a developer is focused on creating a positive user experience and adding useful features. Obsessive optimization of factors that users don't care about can lead to crappy applications — see quite a few open source GUI applications as an example.