Clean code won't save the planet

Re:Clean code won't save the planet by zinekeller on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:10PM (#25010683)

Good question. Counter-example: news sites. Very lean in '90s and early 2000s, but now still serves the same thing but with more tracking (so JS), autoplaying video for another newsitem (so additional data is consumed + battery life), and the essential content (what an average user wants) is still the same. Complicated visualization done wih JS+Canvas? Fine with that. News item? If it is a human, it would be obese already.

TLDR: News sites for reading news has certainly got heavier.

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by jrm415 on Friday November 06, 2020 @04:23PM (#25011322)

Actually, the "essential content" has on average gotten much worse as budget cuts mean much less original writing.

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Re:Clean code won't save the planet by cblconfederate on Friday November 06, 2020 @03:37PM (#25010902)

News sites need to look trendy even if the current trend is "morbidly obese" wiki doesn't need that

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