Wirth's law

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
-- Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software".

I think this is something we here on /prog/ can clearly see. Programmers keep making things more and more complex/bloated shit for no good reason. Almost nobody cares about lean, fast, responsive, optimized software. Sad times.

>>13
In that case,the "best way" could be figured in
minutes, not days. What exactly suckless
debates on? Elegance or code size?
simple terminal is dependent on X11 - does X11 seems
elegant or small to them?
>>14
C code without discipline invites bugs.
Modularize and unit test everything.

>>15-san brings a good point.
Is dwm suckless? Yes, it's a suckless window manager looking at the code. But it depends on X11 wich is hugely bloated.
Is surf suckless? Yes, it's a suckless web-browser front-end. But it depends on webkit which is hugely bloated.

But this is understandable. There isn't enough man-power to work on huge stuff like an entire browser engine or windowing system by themselves. This is an inherent issue.

All in all I'm glad to use X11+dwm instead of x11+GNOME for example. It's a start.

>>15

In that case,the "best way" could be figured in minutes, not days.

Members have jobs and other responsibilities. Maybe once the community grows development can be as fast as you want, but we can't blame them right now for the slow pace.