The Great Software Obesity Crisis

The Great Software Obesity Crisis
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Remember when developers were optimization wizards who could cram entire games into kilobytes? Now we've got frameworks that need a small data center just to print "Hello World." The left doge is the chad programmer of '96 flexing on fitting Pokémon Red into a mere 512kB cartridge—an actual miracle of code efficiency. Meanwhile, modern devs (right doge) are having existential crises because their JavaScript framework with 237 dependencies needs a gigabyte of RAM to display two words on a screen. Progress!