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'Bloat' is 'any feature I'm not using right now'. We expect more out of our software, so we write more code to do it, and we complain about bloat because no in
by derleth 13y ago
'Bloat' is 'any feature I'm not using right now'.
We expect more out of our software, so we write more code to do it, and we complain about bloat because no individual person uses, or expects to use, every feature in every piece of software. However, when anyone comes along to remove features, people complain even worse because, of course, nobody can agree about which features to axe! Everyone is using different subsets!
- smosher 13y agoNah, bloat is any feature I'm not using ever; like java, or gnome-tracker. e: these are just two things that were installed on my system despite not having software that needed them.
- glhaynes 13y agoAnd that "bloat" also comes from features in libraries that the developers use. It's much of what allows development to happen at a much more rapid rate than it did in the past.