Programmer Humor

It's just that we have to make space for our 5,358 partners and the telemetry data they need.

Electron everywhere.

Paypal has 500 mb and just shows a number and you can press a button to send a number to their server.

It's insane

Cheaper & faster development by leveraging large libraries/frameworks, but inability to automatically drop most unused parts of those libraries/frameworks. You could in theory shrink Electron way down by yoinking out tons of browser features you're not using, but there's not much incentive to do it and it'd potentially require a lot of engineering work.

Ads and trackers

Fucking Chrome/Electron is why.

I honestly wouldn't mind that if they could all use the exact same runtime so the apps could be a few MB each, but nooooo.

Simple reason - dependencies.

Modern devs dump any dependency and sub-dependency under the sun into their project and don't bother about optimizing it. That's how you end up with absurdly large applications. Especially electron is a problem in this regard.

You can still write optimized and small software. However, for most businesses, it's just not worth their time. Rather using an additional couple hundred megabytes of dependencies on the client system.

The hp printer app says it needs your location to connect to WiFi. It says it needs your location all the time when not using the app, again to connect to WiFi

It's the secret sauce, called unnecessary frameworks and user analytics modules.

isn't it a combination of younger developers not learning to programme under the restrictions of limited memory and cpu speed, on top of employers demanding code as soon as possible rather than code that is elegant or resource efficient or even slightly planned out

Bloatware, spyware, scope creep from middle managers feeling uncomfortable letting a dev have a slow day.

#include "the_entire_fucking_internet.h"

uh, please do ask, why does opening a fucking glorified text and image processing app require 1 gigabyte of ram.

Who wrote this software? The guy from the bible who was the model for greed and gluttony? Jesus christ.

Skill issue

React

I just updated Epic Games Launcher. BEHOLD:

1st update

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2nd update

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Almost a gigabyte for a mostly blank interface, wtf.

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It's like Moore's law. The number of bytes for a basic app doubles every 2.5 years.

When I was young, we'd get a few different games games on a single 1.4 Mb floppy disk. The games were simpler, sure, but exactly the same games now would be far bigger in bytes.

Marketing. Corporate leadership has decided marketing knows better software design than actual engineers.

Usually, instead of having 8-bit art, you have epic songs and very high definition textures. That is a good deal of why.

That topics always made me curious tho....take a sample AAA games back then has smaller size compared to shitty Unity 2D games nowadays and i wonder why ?

Kinda tired of people referring to my work as "IT"

Because the app stores keep adding new requirements that you have to add code to deal with and it gets worse every year and seemingly every day.