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[โ€“] Realitaetsverlust@lemmy.zip 58 points 2 months ago (7 children)

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.

[โ€“] hyperhopper@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Tree shaking should fix this to a large degree though

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