Fatware

[Hard Rock]

Who cares about image compression anyway these days?

All i really want is pngs with 16 bit colour. That would say me 33% per file with minimal impact on the final colour quality.

In any case the really cool image is research is being done on image recognition, like Microsoft's photosynth.

I agree that bloatware is bad, but there is still hope - take, for example, µTorrent. It's only a couple hundred kilobytes, yet it is a full-featured BitTorrent client. It's fast, responsive, and lightweight in RAM usage. It was written in C++. Contrast this with other clients, like Azureus (Java) or the official BitTorrent client (Python). This is not an attack on those languages; rather, I am trying to point out that it is still possible to write a modern application in a modern language while controlling bloat. You can have your cake and eat it too if you try hard enough

C++ a modern langauge?
Um........ Java is pretty much a modern language (it is quite a few years old, but it gets overhauls very often eg 1.5, 1.6). C# is also modern, Ruby is modern, I suppose PHP as well.
C++ is old. C is ancient. Basic is a relic.

So i fail to see your point.

The reason for Azureus being so large has nothing to do with Java anyway. Azureus uses the SWT library to look like windows, and thus it needs to ship with its library. If they used swing they could easily drop the size in half, but then you people would complain that it doesnt look like your other apps.