Well I remember one project where having the app small and portable or at least self-contained was a hard requirement. It involved an embedded device (ridiculou

Well I remember one project where having the app small and portable or at least self-contained was a hard requirement. It involved an embedded device (ridiculously complex and over-engineered embedded device) that used customized USB flash sticks for user authentication, data transfer and firmware updates and configuration. The partitioning scheme of the update/configuration scheme meant that I had only about 16MB of free space on the windows-visible partition for a Windows GUI configuration application for the thing. Originally I started writing it in MFC, but MFC is not exactly good match for something so trivial and all the abstractions meant for document-based applications were mostly in the way and I ended up doing it in Lazarus.