Congratulations on leaving your bubble. And welcome to the developping world. 165kb is a pain in the ass over 3G, and when people buy loads for them sim card giving them a data amount still measured in megabytes, it matters a lot, even the big ones like facebook had to make lite versions because of it.
You're going to rediscover all kinds of other cool cool stuff you forgot you could do whle wasting resources in the last decades. With everyone going with bloated mess and electron apps, it is a really amazing time to be building snappy softwares now. So, again, welcome.
(the arrogant tone of your message was really misplaced)
"Be kind. Don't be snarky. Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine.
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Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith."
165KB is still a lot of pretty-making text. Attitudes like that are why "webapps" eat hundreds of megabytes of memory for tasks where low-tens would be more than enough, even allowing for some slopping programming and lots of abstractions. That 165KB hangs around in memory in probably more than one form, and becomes part of future layout decisions on the page, if they come up.
>Did you know you can build and deploy an entire application without ever running a compiler or touching a physical machine now? We have REPLs were you can interact with your application live, in real time.
How do I interact with REPLs in real time without touching a physical machine?
