No, not the human body fat thing.

I'm talking about fat code, and probably the politically-correct
erasure of the term. When I was lamenting the fat code in the current
Web and coding environment, I got a ton of weight-loss links. What? I
have no desire to filter through all these irrelevant results on how
to lose 500 lbs. in 10 weeks, although I did give it the old college
try by filtering out loss, but I still got a bunch of garbage hits.

No, the obesity epidemic of programming is sadly the norm. I remember
when having 500 MHz in processing power was lightning fast. It was
probably lower when I was a kid in the early-mid 1990s. Back then
computer programs were mostly written efficiently and those that
weren't were rightfully mocked for it. Now the norm is to cobble
together a bunch of libraries in a framework and shove out the first
working solution, performance be damned. Part of that is thanks to the
increase in computing power and bandwidth we have at our disposal
today. Another is unrealistic deadlines and expectations by people who
couldn't write a Hello, World script. This has led to a bloated,
slower, more decorative experience on the WWW that exists today.

We have games that have HUNDREDS of GIGABYTES to download. What? Why?
I'm constantly reminded that I stopped being an active member of the
gaming community before the serious anti-consumer and ridiculous
bloated crap really got into the mainstream. I haven't seen that much
better graphics, at least not enough to warrant that much disk space.
Skyrim fits on an 8GB DVD on Xbox. Skyrim. And you're telling me you
need hundreds of gigs? 77GB for Forza Horizon 4? A racing game?

But back to non-gaming: fat code is costing us. It's costing everyone.
In a rarer and rarer event, I opened up my DOM inspector in Vivaldi on
Youtube. My God, that site is fat. They have vector graphics for
buttons. I guess that's more efficient, but considering just how many
layers down it was, I'm not so sure. I thought the were using a font
since at the time I had images disabled. Nope. I mean I expected it to
be fat, but a search result page source ran 552KB. That's fat for a
webpage source, and that's not including all the dynamic loading of
items in the site AND including uBlock Origin enabled.

Once again I'm reminded why minimalism is so good. Keep it simple,
stupid.