This is not a JavaScript issue. It’s a software enginner/people issue. The question is how do you get people to care about performance, security, reliability, etc.? How do you get organizations to care about these issues?

These are hard problems and people have been complaining about software size forever. Back in the early 90s, it was bloated C++ code.

You will also see that all software continues to use more ram, more disk space, more network bandwidth etc. This trend has been going on for decades.

For example, why do we use JSON as an interchange format? It’s relatively slow (i.e. creating it and parsing it is slow), nor is it is not space efficient. Back in the 1980s, the Unix community created RPC and the RPC wire formats were much more efficient because they were binary formats. The reason we use JSON is it makes the developer’s life easier and because developers prefer ease of use to performance.

> The question is how do you get people to care about performance, security, reliability, etc...How do you get organizations to care about these issues?

It's very hard to, unless there is a risk to the bottom line.

Let me pose it differently--apparently ZED is ridiculously fast code editor. Do I want to switch from my vscode investment? Or will I deal with the "bloat"