Re:Verschlimmbesserung: The Word Your Software Updates Need
by andai on Saturday August 29, 2026 @04:04PM
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Interesting. By this definition, a poorly chosen algorithm is also "bloat", which doesn't seem right to me.
I see bloat mostly as "unnecessary dependencies." Things which, if you removed them, the product would improve.
e.g. importing a whole library for what could have been a simple function.
If something justifies its "weight", then it's not bloat. It's functional.
But there's also "feature bloat." If a feature or change doesn't need to exist, or makes things worse, then it's bloat. If you removed it, the project would improve.
I see bloat mostly as "unnecessary dependencies." Things which, if you removed them, the product would improve.
e.g. importing a whole library for what could have been a simple function.
If something justifies its "weight", then it's not bloat. It's functional.
But there's also "feature bloat." If a feature or change doesn't need to exist, or makes things worse, then it's bloat. If you removed it, the project would improve.