Why Bloat Is Still Software’s Biggest Vulnerability

[Kagamin]

On Monday, 12 February 2024 at 15:03:01 UTC, tim wrote:
> https://spectrum.ieee.org/lean-software-development

I hate bloated software too. Someone said here phobos reaches 
64000 symbol limit so can't grow larger. Wait but what 
functionality phobos has? It's mostly templated on top of that. I 
wrote an experimental library, it has allocator, bitmanip, prng, 
constant time hex (for lulz), collections, logging, some crypto, 
hashes, file i/o, json, xml, networking (tcp, ssl, async), 
processes and threads, runtime, abstract stream, time and 
stopwatch, 319KB of text in total including unittests. I wonder 
if I'm doing it wrong. Encrypted shadow file exchange tool 
compiles to 24KB, I wrote it because I wanted to send files 
between machines running different OSes. HTTP client is 400 lines 
of code, it's small enough I didn't bother to extract it into a 
library, just copy it on demand, mostly because it's not clear 
what to do with pipelining across several requests.