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Now that everyones running faster than ever and trying to outrun the competition by slapping more code on than they do you can only brace for the results.

I expect these tools will quickly let people to ramp up several orders of magnitude of more complexity and lines of code to any software project.

The your 100kloc JS electron app will become a 10m loc JS electron app running on a 500m loc browser runtime.

Repeat this across the stack for every software component and application and library. If you think things are bloated now just wait a few years and your notepad will be a 1m line behemoth with runtime performance of a glacier.



But how do you make the case for thoughtful less bloated software to people who just value writing less code themselves, even if the output produces more lines of code? Seems to me like people don’t care about LOC, they care about how much effort they have to spend writing the lines.


"Introducing picopad" "introducing nanopad"




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