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Some software bloat is OK

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50 points senfiaj | 1 comments | 04 Nov 25 08:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.294s | source
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Cthulhu_ ◴[04 Nov 25 09:51 UTC] No.45809144[source]▶
I work in enterprise, B2C software, lots of single page apps / self service portals, that kind of thing. I don't think our software is bloated per se; sure it could be faster, but for example when it comes to mobile apps, it's a tradeoff between having the best and fastest apps, being able to hire people, development speed, and non-functional requirements.

It's good enough, and for example React Native is spending years and millions in more optimizations to make their good enough faster, the work they do is well beyond my pay grade. (https://reactnative.dev/blog/2025/10/08/react-native-0.82#ex...)

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1. liampulles ◴[04 Nov 25 10:18 UTC] No.45809326[source]▶
As far as internal services go, I agree, being able to easily add stuff is the main priority.

For customer facing stuff, I think it's worth looking into frameworks that do backend templating and then doing light DOM manipulation to add dynamism on the client side. Frameworks like Phoenix make this very ergonomic.

It's a useful tool to have in the belt.