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It used to be that everyone wrote all of their own code and applications were tiny. Now it’s easy to pull in dozens of libraries and their hundreds or thousands
by Joeri 5y ago
It used to be that everyone wrote all of their own code and applications were tiny. Now it’s easy to pull in dozens of libraries and their hundreds or thousands of transitive dependencies. The resulting app bloat becomes a ticket on the pile, to be solved some day going on never.
- markrages 5y agoParent comment is evergreen. It could have been written in 1996. I feel the same way. But as we curmudgeons stand athwart history, the whole of software development is moving toward the largest sizes the technology will allow.