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Has anyone ever actually tried to fight against bloat in the workplace? It really doesn't go down well. Most developers love it.

• tremon 5y ago
  Bloat is the developer version of outsourcing. Why write something from scratch when we can import this library that does 80% of what we need? Sure, it isn't ideal and is way too complex for what we need, but at least it's cheaper this way.
  • southerntofu 5y ago
    I don't exactly disagree, but i think bloatware is not just measured by features. Some very capable software are very tiny in size and easy on resources, while some very simple software can be very "bloated" (another commented pointed out a 300MB "driver").
  • jart 5y ago
    It's cheaper because users are the ones who pay for it. The less conscientious people are at each layer of the stack the bigger the snowball gets.
  • LAC-Tech 5y ago
    In frontend, we import libraries that requires us to write more code. Then we defend it as "best practice" because someone on the internet said it was.