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.

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

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.

#include "the_entire_fucking_internet.h"

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

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.

Because companies give zero fucks. They will tell you they need tons of IT people, when in reality they want tons of underpaid programmers. They want stuff as fast and cheap as possible. What doesn't cause immediate trouble is usually good enough. What can be patched up somehow is kept running, even when it only leads you further up the cliff you will fall off eventually.

Management is sometimes completely clueless. They rather hire twice as many people to keep some poorly developed app running, than to invest in a new, better developed app, that requires less maintenance and provides a better user experience. Zero risk tolerance and zero foresight.

It still generates money, you keep it running. Any means are fine.

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

It's all because of Electron, unnecessary libraries, and just bad coders. Asus Armoury Crate weighs a lot and is so slow, but it's basically a simple app. Total Commander has much more features, but it's fast, lightweight, and consumes 9 MB of RAM.

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

Memory is cheap and data sells enough to many parties. Most apps are just store front for Ads and data collection.

No wonder why open source apps are quite light.

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 ?

Oh, they have new functionality. It's all in the back end, detailing everything you do and sending it to the parent company so they can monetize your life.

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