Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

[Gast]

Fits on a Floppy: A Manifesto for Small Software

https://fitsonafloppy.com/

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Software should be as small as it can be. Not as a gimmick, but as a discipline. The floppy disk is the measuring stick: 1.44 MB. If the software that ran entire businesses could fit in that space, then a modern, focused, single-purpose tool certainly can.
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[Gast]

@lproven Mine does. Sort of.

The deb package is 1044 kB if I don't include the GUI library dependencies which at least on Linux are provided by the OS, and remove the PDF manual which is online anyway.

[Gast]

@lproven
@bert_hubert has an excellent blog series on exactly this:
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/a-2024-plea-for-lean-software/
with running code!
https://berthub.eu/articles/trifecta/
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/trifecta-technology/

[Gast]

@lproven "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[Gast]

@lproven Well said. In a similar way I think games should be as small as possible. There are some things that make games better, but I shouldn't need a state of the art computer to play it.