Code bloat has become astronomical
June 5, 2022 cliffski

Code bloat has become astronomical – Cliffski's Blog

Using library is "easy", but how many people choose the right library wisely ?
Sometime, we may just want to have a vehicle which could run on the road, floating on the water, and fly across the river...
But we might just "want" the features, not use it.

How many % does people understand about their own code ?

With github everyone can code

Obligatory: https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-br...-piece-of-code/

Anyone working with nodejs knows the pain of npm dependency hell.

One comment under the article worth mentioning:



Yeah, that's really bloated, if empty project is already 300MB.

And there is another remark from other forum:


This post has been edited by FlierMate1: Jul 23 2022, 08:39 AM

Copy paste is easy.
To understand what have been copied may not.







This post has been edited by flashang: Jul 23 2022, 11:23 AM

really long article and its saturday and i dont feel like reading

whats it about ? that programmers would rather use readily made library than writing simple code themselves?

young programmers not paying attention to processing power and memory usage? thats normal lolz

This post has been edited by 15cm: Jul 23 2022, 02:38 PM

“An 11 line npm package called left-pad with only 10 stars on github was unpublished…it broke some of the most important packages on all of npm.”

Should we suspect those "programmer" who not using simple method to left-pad are either lousy, lazy, or both ?





This post has been edited by flashang: Jul 25 2022, 12:00 AM

Just workable mindset only make a working product,
Hard to make a good product.

I think most programmers are not using left-pad directly, it happens just because one of the package depends on it.


This post has been edited by FlierMate1: Jul 25 2022, 01:24 AM

But the alternative should be discussed too. Every single line of code should come with written unit, integration and system tests.

Hence, if you want to reduce dependency on external components, would these functions be written from scratch with the accompanied written tests?

1. Effort / risk writting the test vs using external dependency (with the problems with it)
2. Based on the language feature / framework, solution such modularization (using only package needed within the library itself) could minimize this?

This post has been edited by Imaizumi: Sep 7 2022, 10:04 AM