On Sat, Apr 23, 2016 at 10:52 AM, Joachim Durchholz
Finally, any interface libraries that will have to be downloaded from web pages should be small. Less than 100k. Page bloat is a real and serious problem.
IMO, this particular thing is not a serious problem, and the web pages can easily handle two orders of magnitude larger web pages, 10MB javascript without problems (example: Google+). If part of the download is a standard library, then we'll see more use of cache forever semantics from standardized locations (CDNs). The stackage eco-system with pre-compiled packages can be directly mapped onto a cache forever system and with async download of new versions (like what Chrome and other browsers do today), the problem is mostly converted from a latency issue into a bandwidth issue, and we have plenty of bandwidth. Alexander