Restless Toucan

"simple software" is a fairy tale every engineer likes to tell themselves. In reality, simple software is either dysfunctional, or satisfactory to at most 5 people on the entire planet. You simply cannot make software simple, because software is not a single math equation you apply to everything equally - the range of functionality and usecases of (realistically) any important piece of software is so great the code cannot be "simple". This entire idea on linux stems from dwm, (in my opinion) one of the stupidest marketing tricks that worked on dumb linux users. DWM is a barely functional, glorified lua script for barebones tiling, that only works because it runs on top of a fucking million line of code behemoth that is Xorg which does everything for it. DWM accomplishes nothing of value and that's why it can be 2k LOC. It's even more hilarious once you look at the wayland spiritual successor - dwl. It's purely dysfunctional, even with the 80k-or-so LOC wlroots (plus deps) powering it. Once you go past "I need to open 2 terminals" everything starts falling apart. The idea of "less lines of code = faster and more readable code bro" is something I'd expect a first year CS student to say, not an actual experienced programmer. The linux kernel is 50 million lines or whatnot and I don't see you complaining that AMD just added 10k more lines because a new gpu came out and they need to add driver support for it. No, patching code for functionality is terrible and is a braindead method of adding features that doesn't even work in most cases. No, more features do not make your computer slower. If you don't use it, the code doesn't fuckin run. You will never notice that 4ns branch ran 2x a minute dear linux user. No, more LOC doesn't mean slower. Hell, in some cases, more LOC means faster, because we can do intelligent things and not the fast-and-dirty methods. But that's just an opinion, of course. What do I know.