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I firmly believe that software expands to consume the available resources.
It is exceptionally painful to read Niklaus Wirth’s article A Plea for Lean Software from 1995, which laments that 1995 era software needed whole megabytes, and then goes on to describe the Oberon Operating System which he built which needed only 200KB, including an editor and a compiler. There are now likely projects that have more than 200KB of YAML alone.
$ find translations/ config/ -iname '*.yaml' | xargs cat | wc -c 572429 $
That’s only the project itself; including dependencies it’s more.