Minimalism in an Age of Tremendous Hardware

I liked to be reminded that there used to be a time where "complete" systems could fit in 1k of storage. Even as a developer, I'm always amazed at how exponentially expensive all these features that we have added over the years are.

What's interesting and somewhat related are the studies done where, all things being equal, code size is the best predictor of code quality [1]. I think as far as justifications go, this research gives us a compelling reason to continue down the path of minimalization and simplicity, even when we have the capacity to store and execute very large programs.

[1]: http://blog.vivekhaldar.com/post/10669678292/size-is-the-bes...