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Hopefully, realizing how unnecessarily shitty and bloated nearly all existing software is and rediscovering an appreciation for simplicity, reliability, and performance. There’s so much low-hanging fruit to be picked yet we let it rot on the vine.

Projects like Zig I think are the first signs that we are getting fed up with what we have.

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there's actually one angle that I believe has changed on that topic: security.

Security is to me the number 1 reason to reduce bloat in any application. By limiting the number of external dependencies, and maybe even the number of features, you end up with a more secure product.

It something that didn't matter as much a decade ago, but is now very relevant.

Then there's all the other reasons, like responsiveness, download size, developer experience etc, but they haven't been the priority of most businesses

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