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Some software bloat is OK

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50 points senfiaj | 2 comments | 04 Nov 25 08:27 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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SurceBeats ◴[04 Nov 25 10:03 UTC] No.45809221[source]▶
The article is kind of right about legitimate bloat, but "premature optimization is evil" has become an excuse to stop thinking about efficiency entirely. When we choose Electron for a simple app or pull in 200 dependencies for basic tasks, we're not being pragmatic, we're creating complexity debt that often takes more time to debug than writing leaner code would have. But somehow here we are, so...
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1. m-schuetz ◴[04 Nov 25 11:01 UTC] No.45809606[source]▶
I'd argue that the insane complexity of fast apps/APIs pushes many devs towards super slow but easy apps/APIs. There needs to be a middle ground, something that's easy to use and fast-enough, rather than trying to squeeze every last bit of perf while completely sacrificing usability.
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2. immibis ◴[04 Nov 25 20:24 UTC] No.45815488[source]▶
Java Swing? It was slow in 1999, which means it's fast now. It's also a much more sensible language than JavaScript. It's not native GUI, but neither is JavaScript anyway.