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Software tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier and bigger as it evolves, unless it is designed from the outset to prevent that.

Drawn from what Guillermo Rauch said

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software performance Speed as a mark of quality: bloat, boot times, and software that got slower on hardware that got faster.

Everything decays without maintenance

What makes a design good?under our view: Good design is less: reduce to the essentials and leave nothing arbitrary Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: The hard part is saying no: every addition is easy to justify, and products bloat unless someone cuts

What Guillermo Rauch actually said

  1. Guillermo Rauch CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO
    As software evolves, it tends to get slower, more bloated, buggier, and bigger.

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